NHANES Dietary Tutorial - Basic Dietary Analyses

Course Number: WB1353

The Basic Dietary Analyses course demonstrates how to perform some of the most frequently requested analyses of NHANES dietary data. The course begins with a description of the particular idiosyncrasies of dietary data, especially measurement error and its relevance to the interpretation of results. The next module continues the statistical theme by showing how to estimate variances, analyze subgroups, and calculate degrees of freedom, given the NHANES sampling design. The remaining modules demonstrate how to perform selected basic analyses with dietary data.

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TARGET AUDIENCE: This course is targeted to a portion of the NHANES data users community, particularly those that are interested in or already analyzing NHANES dietary data. This includes: statisticians, dietitians, epidemiologists, and public health researchers.

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DEVELOPED BY: National