Food Security, Poverty and Nutrition Policy Analysis —— Statistical Methods and Applications

----- 粮食安全，贫穷和营养政策分析：统计方法和应用

ISBN: 9780123747129 出版年：2009 页码：431 Babu, Suresh Sanyal, Prabuddha Academic Press_RM

Preface Introduction Section I: Food Security Policy Analysis Introduction to Section I: Food Security Policy Analysis Chapter 1. Introduction to Food Security: Concepts and Measurement Chapter 2. Implications of Technological Change, Post-Harvest Technology and Technology Adoption for Improved Food Security- Application of t- Statistic Chapter 3. Effects of Commercialization of Agriculture (Shift from Traditional Crop to Cash Crop) on Food Consumption and Nutrition- Application of Chi-square Statistic Chapter 4. Effects of Commercialization of Agriculture or Technology Adoption and Gender of Household Head: The Issue, its Importance in Food Security - Application of Cramer's V and Phi Coefficient Chapter 5. Changes in Food Consumption Patterns: The Issue and its Importance to Food Security - Application of One-way ANOVA Chapter 6. Impact of Market Access on Food Security - Application of Factor analysis Section II: Nutrition Policy Analysis Introduction to Section II: Nutrition Policy Analysis Chapter 7. Impact of Maternal Education and Care on Preschoolers' Nutrition - Application of Two-way ANOVA Chapter 8. Indicators and Causal Factors of Nutrition - Application of Correlation Analysis Chapter 9. Effects of Individual, Household and Community Indicators on Child's Nutritional Status - Application of Simple Linear Regression Chapter 10. Female education and Community Characteristics as Indicators of Nutritional Status of Children-Application of Multivariate Regression Section III: Special Topics on Poverty, Nutrition, and Food Policy Analysis Introduction to Section III: Special Topics on Poverty, Nutrition and Food Policy Analysis Chapter 11. Predicting Child Nutritional Status Using related Socio-economic Variables - Application of Discriminant Function Analysis Chapter 12. Measurement and Determinants of Poverty- Application of Logistic Regression Models Chapter 13. Classifying Households on Food Security and Poverty Dimensions - Application of K-mean Cluster Analysis Chapter 14. Household Care as a Determinant of Nutritional Status- Application of Instrumental Variable Estimation Chapter 15. Achieving an Ideal Diet - Modeling with Linear Programming Technical Appendices Statistical Tables Bibilography