STUDY ON THE FACTORS INFLUENCING IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA IN PRESCHOOL CHILDREN——THE APPLICATION OF CONDITIONALLOGISTIC REGRESSION MODEL / 营养学报

ABSTRACT

By application of the conditional Logistic regression model, the factors influencing iron deficiency anemia in preschool children from 3 to under 7 years old have been analysed. To estimate the mode parameters, Newton-Raphson iterative method has been used. By 81 matched groups of 14 paired case-control and among seventeen hazard factors, five significant factors contained in the model are as follows eating less meat, fewer vegetables and fruits, having a poor appetite and cooking with aluminium utensils.