sis on the observed
diversity using their covariate information as predictors. However, in many
settings (especially microbial), rare and unobserved taxa play a hugely
important role in explaining the subtleties of the ecosystem, however, a
regression analysis on the observed diversity level fails to account for
these unobserved taxa. By predicting the total level of diversity (for
example, via <code><a href='breakaway.html'>breakaway</a></code>) and estimating the standard error in
the estimate, one can ta