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  • Physical Activity Epidemiology
  • Wearable Technology Data Analysis

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  • Sensor devices like accelerometers generate high-frequency physical activity (PA) data, creating challenges due to multilevel, densely sampled information.
  • Scalar health outcomes (e.g., BMI) are typically measured at lower frequencies (individual/visit level), causing a data level discrepancy with PA predictors.
  • Existing analytical methods struggle to effectively model the complex relationship between fine-grained PA data and longitudinal health outcomes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a novel statistical framework for analyzing multilevel longitudinal functional PA data.
  • To investigate the association between functional PA patterns and obesity-related health outcomes.
  • To evaluate the performance of proposed methods using simulations and provide analytical guidelines.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a multilevel longitudinal functional principal component analysis (mLFPCA) model to handle functional PA inputs.
  • Implemented a longitudinal functional principal component regression (FPCR) to link PA with health outcomes.
  • Conducted comprehensive simulations to assess method performance with imbalanced multilevel data.

Main Results:

  • The proposed mLFPCA and FPCR models effectively handle the complexities of multilevel longitudinal functional PA data.
  • The study provides insights into the association between PA patterns and obesity-related health outcomes.
  • Simulation results offer practical guidelines for method selection in similar research.

Conclusions:

  • The developed mLFPCA and FPCR methods offer a robust approach for analyzing sensor-based PA data in longitudinal health studies.
  • Addressing data level discrepancies is crucial for accurately modeling PA-health outcome relationships.
  • The findings support the use of advanced statistical techniques for extracting meaningful health insights from wearable sensor data.