An evaluation of the U.S. Department of Agriculture food security measure with generalized linear mixed models

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 421-427

  Opsomer, Jean D ^a   Jensen, Helen H ^b   Pan, Suwen ^b  

^a Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Food insecurity; Household hunger; Rasch model

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HUNGER; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037317356     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jn/133.2.421     Document Type: Article

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