Crowdsourcing help with an interdisciplinary research challenge – hoping to submit (awesome!) methods paper to statistics journal. Statisticians call phenomenon X. Target audience for method is microbiome scientists, who call phenomenon Y. What should we call it throughout paper?

I loathe that I have to worry about this, but with stat reviewers so pedantic and peer review taking so long, I'm leaning towards calling it X. Ergh.

Thoughts?

Really looking forward to presenting at #MVIF 14 tonight. A free, virtual monthly #microbiome research seminar, with two time slots for increased global participation!

I'll be presenting on "Model Misspecification in Microbiome Studies" -- talking about unequal taxon-specific detection, implications, corrections, and future work!

Hope to see you there!

Register here: microbiome-vif.org