On exploring and ranking risk factors of child malnutrition in Bangladesh using multiple classification analysis

BMC Nutrition
Kakoli Rani Bhowmik, Sumonkanti Das

Abstract

Logistic regression analysis is widely used to explore the determinants of child malnutrition status mainly for nominal response variable and non-linear relationship of interval-scale anthropometric measure with nominal-scale predictors. Multiple classification analysis relaxes the linearity assumption and additionally prioritizes the predictors. Main objective of the study is to show how does multiple classification analysis perform like linear and logistic regression analyses for exploring and ranking the determinants of child malnutrition. Anthropometric data of under-5 children are extracted from the 2011 Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey. The analysis is carried out considering several socio-economic, demographic and environmental explanatory variables. The Height-for-age Z-score is used as the anthropometric measure from which malnutrition status (stunting: below -2.0 Z-score) is identified. The fitted multiple classification analysis models show similar results as linear and logistic models. Children age, birth weight and birth interval; mother's education and nutrition status; household economic status and family size; residential place and regional settings are observed as the significant predictors of both Heig...Continue Reading

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Jul 24, 2018·Maternal & Child Nutrition·Kakoli Rani Bhowmik, Sumonkanti Das
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