How to analyze longitudinal multilevel physical activity data with many zeros?

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 476-481

  Lee, Andy H ^a   Zhao, Yun ^a   Yau, Kelvin K W ^b   Xiang, Liming ^c  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Gamma mixed regression; Longitudinal study; Multilevel modeling; Physical activity; Random effects

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; AGED; AUSTRALIA; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 78649719131     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2010.09.012     Document Type: Article

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