How to pick -n (number of discriminants) in MED?

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Joanna Wang

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Oct 22, 2019, 9:54:12 AM10/22/19

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Hi all,

I was testing MED pipeline with my data and wondered whether I should change -n (default is 4). So I did some tests and found that if I increase n, I get more ASVs, but with more sequences removed due to -M. Just wondering how I am supposed to determine the n?