Modeling the spatial variability in the spread and correlation of childhood malnutrition in Nigeria

Gayawan E, Adebayo SB, Waldmann E (2019)

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2019

Journal

Statistics in Medicine Wiley-Blackwell

Book Volume: 38

Pages Range: 1869-1890

Journal Issue: 10

DOI: 10.1002/sim.8077

Abstract

The average nutritional status of children in Nigeria is, just as in most developing countries, still in an alarmingly bad condition. Prior studies have shown that this status relies on a series of different influences and can be measured by three anthropometric variables for stunting, wasting, and underweight. Different regression modeling techniques have been adopted over the years to explain the determinants and spatial clustering. Those indicators, however, show patterns that are not necessarily full filling requirements for ordinary regression models for the mean and are correlated among each other, a fact that has until now been ignored by most studies. Methods to model outcomes in the light of both, the whole distribution of and the correlation between two or more outcomes based on a set of covariates, have lately been developed. The aim of this paper is to make use of those methods to explain the underlying spatial structure in malnutrition in Nigeria. The study brings to limelight the pattern of spread as well as the interwoven relationships among childhood malnutrition indicators that would have otherwise remained unknown in Nigeria.

Authors with CRIS profile

Elisabeth Bergherr Lehrstuhl für Biometrie und Epidemiologie

Additional Organisation(s)

Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Klinische Forschung

Involved external institutions

The Federal University of Technology Akure NG Nigeria (NG) National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control- Nafdac Online NG Nigeria (NG)

How to cite

APA:

Gayawan, E., Adebayo, S.B., & Waldmann, E. (2019). Modeling the spatial variability in the spread and correlation of childhood malnutrition in Nigeria. Statistics in Medicine, 38(10), 1869-1890. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/sim.8077

MLA:

Gayawan, Ezra, Samson B. Adebayo, and Elisabeth Waldmann. "Modeling the spatial variability in the spread and correlation of childhood malnutrition in Nigeria." Statistics in Medicine 38.10 (2019): 1869-1890.

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