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Logistic regression and linear discriminant analysis in the evaluation of factors associated with stunting in children: Divergence and similarity of the statistical methods
No full textBackground: Stunting is a well-established child health indicator of chronic malnutrition
which is associated with biological, environmental and socioeconomic factors. Logistic
regression and linear discriminant analysis are two statistical methods that can be used to predict or classify subjects as either stunted or not stunted based on all or a subset of measured predictor variables. The predictive accuracy of the two methods were compared with respect to several attributes of each of the methods.
Methods: Data used for the study was extracted from the Zvitambo trial data set. The
multivariable logistic regression and linear discriminant models were fitted using 20
bootstrap samples for cross validation of the coefficients. The two models were compared with respect to the variables selected, the sign and magnitude of the coefficients, sensitivity, specificity, overall classification rate and areas under ROC curves. The two methods were applied in combination to check if predictive accuracy would improve.
Results: Logistic regression and linear discriminant analysis had the same predictive
accuracy with classification rates of 78.76% and 78.86% respectively. Both methods
identified two common factors, sex and birth weight, and the coefficients of the two factors had the same negative sign but the magnitude differed significantly, both had low sensitivity (13.19% and 8.68%) and high specificity (97.44% and 98.24%). Combining the two methods did not improve predictive accuracy (71.5% before and 70.24% after).
Conclusion: The two multivariable techniques tend to converge in classification accuracy mainly when the sample size is large (>50) but when faced with making a choice between the two, it is recommended to use the method whose assumptions for application are fulfilled
Logistic regression and linear discriminant analysis in the evaluation of factors associated with stunting in children: Divergence and similarity of the statistical methods
No full textBackground: Stunting is a well-established child health indicator of chronic malnutrition
which is associated with biological, environmental and socioeconomic factors. Logistic
regression and linear discriminant analysis are two statistical methods that can be used to predict or classify subjects as either stunted or not stunted based on all or a subset of measured predictor variables. The predictive accuracy of the two methods were compared with respect to several attributes of each of the methods.
Methods: Data used for the study was extracted from the Zvitambo trial data set. The
multivariable logistic regression and linear discriminant models were fitted using 20
bootstrap samples for cross validation of the coefficients. The two models were compared with respect to the variables selected, the sign and magnitude of the coefficients, sensitivity, specificity, overall classification rate and areas under ROC curves. The two methods were applied in combination to check if predictive accuracy would improve.
Results: Logistic regression and linear discriminant analysis had the same predictive
accuracy with classification rates of 78.76% and 78.86% respectively. Both methods
identified two common factors, sex and birth weight, and the coefficients of the two factors had the same negative sign but the magnitude differed significantly, both had low sensitivity (13.19% and 8.68%) and high specificity (97.44% and 98.24%). Combining the two methods did not improve predictive accuracy (71.5% before and 70.24% after).
Conclusion: The two multivariable techniques tend to converge in classification accuracy mainly when the sample size is large (>50) but when faced with making a choice between the two, it is recommended to use the method whose assumptions for application are fulfilled
Logistic regression and linear discriminant analysis in the evaluation of factors associated with stunting in children: Divergence and similarity of the statistical methods
No full textBackground: Stunting is a well-established child health indicator of chronic malnutrition
which is associated with biological, environmental and socioeconomic factors. Logistic
regression and linear discriminant analysis are two statistical methods that can be used to predict or classify subjects as either stunted or not stunted based on all or a subset of measured predictor variables. The predictive accuracy of the two methods were compared with respect to several attributes of each of the methods.
Methods: Data used for the study was extracted from the Zvitambo trial data set. The
multivariable logistic regression and linear discriminant models were fitted using 20
bootstrap samples for cross validation of the coefficients. The two models were compared with respect to the variables selected, the sign and magnitude of the coefficients, sensitivity, specificity, overall classification rate and areas under ROC curves. The two methods were applied in combination to check if predictive accuracy would improve.
Results: Logistic regression and linear discriminant analysis had the same predictive
accuracy with classification rates of 78.76% and 78.86% respectively. Both methods
identified two common factors, sex and birth weight, and the coefficients of the two factors had the same negative sign but the magnitude differed significantly, both had low sensitivity (13.19% and 8.68%) and high specificity (97.44% and 98.24%). Combining the two methods did not improve predictive accuracy (71.5% before and 70.24% after).
Conclusion: The two multivariable techniques tend to converge in classification accuracy mainly when the sample size is large (>50) but when faced with making a choice between the two, it is recommended to use the method whose assumptions for application are fulfilled
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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