Food security, poverty, and nutrition policy analysis : statistical methods and applications (Record no. 103332)
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| fixed length control field | 02916nam a22001937a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 978-0124058644 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 338.19 BAB |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Babu, Suresh C,;Gajanan,Shailendra N,; Sanyal, Prabuddha |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Food security, poverty, and nutrition policy analysis : statistical methods and applications |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 2nd Ed., |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Amsterdam |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Elsevier Academic Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2014 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xix, 615p. |
| Other physical details | Hard Bound |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Indiana books and Journals $125/ |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Section 1: Food security policy analysis. Introduction to food security: concepts and measurement --<br/>Implications of technological change, post-harvest technology, and technology adoption for improved food security: application of t-statistic --<br/>Effects of commercialization of agriculture (shift from traditional crop to cash crop) on food consumption and nutrition: application of chi-square statistic --<br/>Effects of technology adoption and gender of household head: the issue, its importance in food security --<br/>application of Cramer's V and Phi coefficient --<br/>Changes in food consumption patterns: its importance to food security --<br/>application of one-way ANOVA --<br/>Impact of market access on food security: application of factor analysis --<br/>Section 2: Nutrition policy analysis. Impact of maternal education and care on preschoolers' nutrition: application of two-way ANOVA --<br/>Indicators and causal factors of nutrition: application of correlation analysis --<br/>Effects of individual, household, and community indicators on child's nutritional status: application of simple linear regression --<br/>Maternal education and community characteristics as indicators of nutritional status of children: application of multivariate regression --<br/>Section 3: Special topics on poverty, nutirtion, and food policy analysis. Predicting child nutritional status using related discriminant function analysis --<br/>Measurement and determinants of poverty: application of logistic regression models --<br/>Classifying households on food security and poverty dimensions: application of K-mean cluster analysis --<br/>Household care as a determinant of nutritional status: application of instrumental variable estimation --<br/>Achieving an ideal diet: modeling with linear programming --<br/>Food and nutrition program evaluation --<br/>Section 4: technical appendices. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Food insecurity, the lack of access at all times to the food needed for an active and healthy life, continues to be a growing problem as populations increase while the world economy struggles. Formulating effective policies for addressing these issues requires thorough understanding of the empirical data and application of appropriate measurement and analysis of that information. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Food supply--Mathematical models |
| -- | Food security |
| 856 ## - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.elsevier.com/books/food-security-poverty-and-nutrition-policy-analysis/babu/978-0-12-405864-4">https://www.elsevier.com/books/food-security-poverty-and-nutrition-policy-analysis/babu/978-0-12-405864-4</a> |
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| GSB Collection | 22/12/2017 | Recommend | 0.00 | 1 | 1 | 338.19 BAB | B2521 | 05/06/2018 | 22/12/2017 | 22/06/2019 | Books |