Compose a paper on “Regression and Correlation Analysis to Determine the Factors Associated with Body Mass Index, And Its Relation to Overweight and Obesity”

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ABSTRACT Body mass index is used to determine whether one is in a healthy weight range for his or her weight The study was aimed in determining the factors that are associated to the BMI of individuals age sex residence ethnicity religion wealth index and educational level Body mass index was actually used in this study to calculate overweight and obesity among the American population Overweight which is an accelerating problem globally that affect every all classes and categories of the American population and the world at large Secondary data from Center for Disease Control 200809 was used in this study a representative sample of 10000 households was drawn as a sample R statistical software version R i386 320 was used in analysis of data after extracting the variables Ordinal logistic regression model was the regression model adopted by the study to determine the factors affecting BMI The results showed that age sex educational level wealth region and ethnicity were significant factors while religion has no effect on BMI KEYWORDS Body Mass Index BMI Obesity Overweight INTRODUCTION11 Background of the study The body mass index BMI its a unit that can obtained from the height and weight of a given individual ... View the full answer