Using multilevel modeling and geographically weighted regression to identify spatial variations in the relationship between place-level disadvantages and obesity in Taiwan

Applied Geography

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 737-745

  Chen, Duan Rung ^a   Truong, Khoa ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Area level disadvantage; Geographically weighted regression; Multilevel model; Obesity

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; MODELING; OBESITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION;

TAIWAN;

EID: 80052550959     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2011.07.018     Document Type: Article

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