On exploring and ranking risk factors of child malnutrition in Bangladesh using multiple classification analysis

BMC Nutrition

Table 3 Priority index and significance for the risk factors of child malnutrition in Bangladesh via interval-scale (IS-MCA) and nominal-scale (NS-MCA) multiple classification analysis models

Risk factors	Priority index from IS-MCA model					Priority index form NS-MCA model
Risk factors	df	η _i	β _i	F	p-value	η _i	β _i	F	p-value
Child’s age in months	4	0.254	0.254	146.165	0.000	0.207	0.206	91.542	0.000
Child’s birth weight	2	0.111	0.096	41.555	0.000	0.107	0.092	36.567	0.000
Birth interval in months	2	0.117	0.056	13.206	0.000	0.108	0.056	12.277	0.000
Mother’s education	3	0.225	0.091	18.570	0.000	0.186	0.067	9.223	0.000
Mother’s BMI (kg/m2)	2	0.165	0.071	19.613	0.000	0.157	0.079	23.309	0.000
Wealth index	4	0.263	0.201	50.111	0.000	0.217	0.166	32.104	0.000
Family size (number of members)	2	0.013	0.037	6.082	0.002	0.009	0.038	5.996	0.002
Region(Division)	6	0.105	0.072	7.630	0.000	0.098	0.071	7.022	0.000
Place of resident	1	0.098	0.025	4.471	0.035	0.074	0.029	5.681	0.017

Note: η _i and β _i indicates priority indices before and after the adjustment of other predictors respectively

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