ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2018
Robust Compositional Analysis of Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour Data.
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- A Compositional Analysis of Physical Activity, Sedentary Time, and Sleep and Associated Health Outcomes in Children and Adults with Cystic Fibrosis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Changes in sedentary behavior patterns during the transition from childhood to adolescence and their association with adiposity: a prospective study based on compositional data analysis.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2022Article
- Time-use movement behaviors are associated with scores of depression/anxiety among adolescents: A compositional data analysis.PloS one · 2022Article
- Segmented School Physical Activity and Weight Status in Children: Application of Compositional Data Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Replacing school and out-of-school sedentary behaviors with physical activity and its associations with adiposity in children and adolescents: a compositional isotemporal substitution analysis.Environmental health and preventive medicine · 2021Article
- How do short sleepers use extra waking hours? A compositional analysis of 24-h time-use patterns among children and adolescents.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2020Article
- Sedentary behavior patterns and adiposity in children: a study based on compositional data analysis.BMC pediatrics · 2020Article
- Adiposity and changes in movement-related behaviors in older adult women in the context of the built environment: a protocol for a prospective cohort study.BMC public health · 2019Article
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Abstract
Although there is an increasing awareness of the suitability of using compositional data methodology in public health research, classical methods of statistical analysis have been primarily used so far. The present study aims to illustrate the potential of robust statistics to model movement behaviour using Czech adolescent data. We investigated: (1) the inter-relationship between various physical activity (PA) intensities, extended to model relationships by age; and (2) the associations between adolescents' PA and sedentary behavior (SB) structure and obesity. These research questions were addressed using three different types of compositional regression analysis-compositional covariates, compositional response, and regression between compositional parts. Robust counterparts of classical regression methods were used to lessen the influence of possible outliers. We outlined the differences in both classical and robust methods of compositional data analysis. There was a pattern in Czech adolescents' movement/non-movement behavior-extensive SB was related to higher amounts of light-intensity PA, and vigorous PA ratios formed the main source of potential aberrant observations; aging is associated with more SB and vigorous PA at the expense of light-intensity PA and moderate-intensity PA. The robust counterparts indicated that they might provide more stable estimates in the presence of outlying observations. The findings suggested that replacing time spent in SB with vigorous PA may be a powerful tool against adolescents' obesity.
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