Application of a new dietary pattern analysis method in nutritional epidemiology

Abstract Background Diet plays an important role in chronic disease, and the use of dietary pattern analysis has grown rapidly as a way of deconstructing the complexity of nutritional intake and its relation to health. Pattern analysis methods, such as principal component analysis (PCA), have been u...

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Main Authors: Fengqing Zhang, Tinashe M. Tapera, Jiangtao Gou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-10-01
Series:BMC Medical Research Methodology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12874-018-0585-8