TY - BOOK AU - Babu, Suresh C,;Gajanan,Shailendra N,; Sanyal, Prabuddha TI - Food security, poverty, and nutrition policy analysis : statistical methods and applications SN - 978-0124058644 U1 - 338.19 BAB PY - 2014/// CY - Amsterdam PB - Elsevier Academic Press KW - Food supply--Mathematical models KW - Food security N1 - Indiana books and Journals $125; Section 1: Food security policy analysis. Introduction to food security: concepts and measurement -- Implications of technological change, post-harvest technology, and technology adoption for improved food security: application of t-statistic -- Effects of commercialization of agriculture (shift from traditional crop to cash crop) on food consumption and nutrition: application of chi-square statistic -- Effects of technology adoption and gender of household head: the issue, its importance in food security -- application of Cramer's V and Phi coefficient -- Changes in food consumption patterns: its importance to food security -- application of one-way ANOVA -- Impact of market access on food security: application of factor analysis -- Section 2: Nutrition policy analysis. Impact of maternal education and care on preschoolers' nutrition: application of two-way ANOVA -- Indicators and causal factors of nutrition: application of correlation analysis -- Effects of individual, household, and community indicators on child's nutritional status: application of simple linear regression -- Maternal education and community characteristics as indicators of nutritional status of children: application of multivariate regression -- Section 3: Special topics on poverty, nutirtion, and food policy analysis. Predicting child nutritional status using related discriminant function analysis -- Measurement and determinants of poverty: application of logistic regression models -- Classifying households on food security and poverty dimensions: application of K-mean cluster analysis -- Household care as a determinant of nutritional status: application of instrumental variable estimation -- Achieving an ideal diet: modeling with linear programming -- Food and nutrition program evaluation -- Section 4: technical appendices N2 - 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 UR - https://www.elsevier.com/books/food-security-poverty-and-nutrition-policy-analysis/babu/978-0-12-405864-4 ER -