A longitudinal view of the relationship between social marginalization and obesity

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6589 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 61-68

  Apolloni, Andrea ^a   Marathe, Achla ^b   Pan, Zhengzheng ^b  

^a ENS Lyon   (France)

^b VIRGINIA BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Add Health; causality; friendship; Obesity; social marginalization

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS;

CAUSALITY; FRIENDSHIP; HEALTH DATA; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MARGINALIZATION; OBESITY; SAMPLE SIZES; YOUNG ADULTS;

NUTRITION;

EID: 79952434374     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-19656-0_10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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