Logit Models for Household Food Insecurity Classification
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Household food insecurity in Ontario.
OBJECTIVES To identify socio-demographic factors associated with household food insecurity in the Ontario population. METHODS Using data from the Ontario Share File of the 2004 Canadian Community Health Survey, Cycle 2.2, multivariate logistic regression was applied to identify the socio-demographic characteristics of households most likely to report food insecurity. RESULTS Of the estimate...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Theoretical and Applied Statistics
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2326-8999
DOI: 10.11648/j.ajtas.20140302.14