Semiparametric Transformation Approach to Estimating Usual Daily Intake Distributions, A

Sarah Nusser, Alicia Carriquiry and Kevin Dodd

Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) Publications from Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) at Iowa State University

Abstract: The distribution of usual intakes of dietary components is important to individuals formulating food policy and to persons designing nutrition education programs. The authors suggest a methodology for estimating usual intake distributions that allows for varying degrees of departure from normality and recognizes the measurement error associated with one-day dietary intakes. The approach is applied to data from the 1985 Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals and works well for a set of dietary components that are consumed nearly daily and exhibit varying distributional shapes. Published in Journal of the American Statistical Association 91(436):1440-49, December 1996. (Replaces 92-WP 99; 95-SR 74.)

Date: 1995-10
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