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A review of statistical methods for dietary pattern analysis.

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  • 1Department of Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Shanxi Medical University, No.56 Xinjian South Road, Taiyuan, 030001, Shanxi province, China.

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Emerging statistical methods for dietary pattern analysis, like finite mixture models, offer new insights into diet-health links. Further research is needed to validate these novel approaches for reproducible health outcome predictions.

Keywords:
Clustering analysisCompositional data analysisData miningDietary patternsDietary quality scoresFactor analysisLeast absolute shrinkage and selection operatorPrincipal component analysisReduced rank regressionTreelet transform

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Area of Science:

  • Nutritional Science
  • Biostatistics
  • Epidemiology

Background:

  • Dietary pattern analysis is crucial for understanding diet-health relationships.
  • Classical statistical methods dominate the literature, including dietary quality scores, principal component analysis, factor analysis, clustering analysis, and reduced rank regression.
  • Emerging statistical methods for dietary pattern analysis are under-explored.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To provide a landscape review of statistical methods for dietary pattern derivation.
  • To discuss emerging methods such as finite mixture models, treelet transform, data mining, least absolute shrinkage and selection operator, and compositional data analysis.
  • To outline the concepts, pros, cons, and software for these methods.

Main Methods:

  • Landscape review of statistical methodologies for dietary pattern analysis.
  • Focus on emerging techniques including finite mixture models, treelet transform, data mining, least absolute shrinkage and selection operator, and compositional data analysis.
  • Evaluation of underlying concepts, advantages, disadvantages, and implementation software.

Main Results:

  • All statistical methods for dietary pattern analysis have unique features and applications.
  • Emerging methods, including finite mixture models and compositional data analysis, require greater attention.
  • Further research is necessary to assess the reproducibility, validity, and predictive ability of emerging methods.

Conclusions:

  • The choice of statistical method for dietary pattern analysis depends on specific research questions.
  • The field of dietary pattern analysis is dynamic, with ongoing potential for new analytical methodologies.