A Bayesian approach to combining multiple information sources: Estimating and forecasting childhood obesity in Thailand.

We estimate and forecast childhood obesity by age, sex, region, and urban-rural residence in Thailand, using a Bayesian approach to combining multiple source of information. Our main sources of information are survey data and administrative data, but we also make use of informative prior distributio...

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Main Authors: John Bryant, Jongjit Rittirong, Wichai Aekplakorn, Ladda Mo-Suwan, Pimolpan Nitnara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0262047