calour.amplicon_experiment.AmpliconExperiment.aggregate_by_metadata¶

AmpliconExperiment.aggregate_by_metadata(field, agg='mean', axis=0, inplace=False)[source]¶

aggregate all samples/features that have the same value in the given field.

Group the samples (axis=0) or features (axis=1) that have the same value in the column of given field and then aggregate the data table of the group with the given method.

The number of samples/features in each group and their IDs are stored in new metadata columns ‘_calour_merge_number’ and ‘_calour_merge_ids’, respectively

Warning

It will convert the Experiment.data from the sparse matrix to dense array.

Parameters:	field (str) – The sample/feature metadata field to group samples/features agg (str, optional) – aggregate method. Choice includes: ’mean’ : the mean of the group ’median’ : the median of the group ’random’ : a random selection from the group ’sum’ : the sum of of the group axis (0, 1, 's', or 'f', optional) – 0 or ‘s’ (default) to aggregate samples; 1 or ‘f’ to aggregate features inplace (bool, optional) – False (default) to create new Experiment, True to perform inplace
Returns:
Return type:	Experiment