Publishing Nutrition Research: A Review of Multivariate Techniques-Part 3: Data Reduction Methods

This is the ninth in a series of monographs on research design and analysis, and the third in a set of these monographs devoted to multivariate methods. The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of data reduction methods, including principal components analysis, factor analysis, reduced...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gleason, P., Boushey, Carol, Harris, J., Zoellner, J.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Elsevier 2014
Online Access:51243
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/51292
_version_ 1848758661912985600
author Gleason, P.
Boushey, Carol
Harris, J.
Zoellner, J.
author_facet Gleason, P.
Boushey, Carol
Harris, J.
Zoellner, J.
author_sort Gleason, P.
building Curtin Institutional Repository
collection Online Access
description This is the ninth in a series of monographs on research design and analysis, and the third in a set of these monographs devoted to multivariate methods. The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of data reduction methods, including principal components analysis, factor analysis, reduced rank regression, and cluster analysis. In the field of nutrition, data reduction methods can be used for three general purposes: for descriptive analysis in which large sets of variables are efficiently summarized, to create variables to be used in subsequent analysis and hypothesis testing, and in questionnaire development. The article describes the situations in which these data reduction methods can be most useful, briefly describes how the underlying statistical analyses are performed, and summarizes how the results of these data reduction methods should be interpreted.
first_indexed 2025-11-14T09:47:33Z
format Journal Article
id curtin-20.500.11937-51292
institution Curtin University Malaysia
institution_category Local University
last_indexed 2025-11-14T09:47:33Z
publishDate 2014
publisher Elsevier
recordtype eprints
repository_type Digital Repository
spelling curtin-20.500.11937-512922017-11-24T01:00:22Z Publishing Nutrition Research: A Review of Multivariate Techniques-Part 3: Data Reduction Methods Gleason, P. Boushey, Carol Harris, J. Zoellner, J. This is the ninth in a series of monographs on research design and analysis, and the third in a set of these monographs devoted to multivariate methods. The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of data reduction methods, including principal components analysis, factor analysis, reduced rank regression, and cluster analysis. In the field of nutrition, data reduction methods can be used for three general purposes: for descriptive analysis in which large sets of variables are efficiently summarized, to create variables to be used in subsequent analysis and hypothesis testing, and in questionnaire development. The article describes the situations in which these data reduction methods can be most useful, briefly describes how the underlying statistical analyses are performed, and summarizes how the results of these data reduction methods should be interpreted. 2014 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/51292 10.1016/j.jand.2015.03.011 51243 49929 49876 Elsevier restricted
spellingShingle Gleason, P.
Boushey, Carol
Harris, J.
Zoellner, J.
Publishing Nutrition Research: A Review of Multivariate Techniques-Part 3: Data Reduction Methods
title Publishing Nutrition Research: A Review of Multivariate Techniques-Part 3: Data Reduction Methods
title_full Publishing Nutrition Research: A Review of Multivariate Techniques-Part 3: Data Reduction Methods
title_fullStr Publishing Nutrition Research: A Review of Multivariate Techniques-Part 3: Data Reduction Methods
title_full_unstemmed Publishing Nutrition Research: A Review of Multivariate Techniques-Part 3: Data Reduction Methods
title_short Publishing Nutrition Research: A Review of Multivariate Techniques-Part 3: Data Reduction Methods
title_sort publishing nutrition research: a review of multivariate techniques-part 3: data reduction methods
url 51243
51243
51243
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/51292