المجلة العراقية للعلوم الاحصائية (Jun 2024)
The Implications of Discriminant Analysis Function in Classifying the Obesity of Childhood < 15 in Egypt “An Applied Study on the Data of EDHS 2015"
Abstract
In general, relatively few statistical studies have been published on the classification of obesity as a risk-based thinking in the childhood stage among the children <15 years old in Egypt. Furthermore, the obesity is regarded as a critical risk that may impede the progress toward the desired level of human development due to its comorbidities and chronic diseases, particularly among children, which may persist with them from childhood to adulthood and elderhood without any tangible measures taken by the officials of state to effectively control the severity of this risk. For that reason, the research direction of this paper examines the impact of some key determinants available in the 2015 Egyptian Demographic Health Survey data (EDHS) to prove its statistically significant effected on the classification of the Egyptian child weight (obesity or non-obesity) based on exceeding the risk threshold 29.9 of the Body Mass Index (BMI) to classify as a confirmed obesity case. Thus, it should be focused on it by the planners to support the children of this selected age group (0-14) until they become adults in the adulthood stage.This study applied discriminant analysis to extract a statistical technique of classifying the status of children weight, thus a new discriminant function was derived and capable of classifying the BMI of Egyptian children <15 by 65% into two main groups: obesity or non-obesity based on seven variables represented, the age, educational level, years of schooling, gender, circumcision status, residency, breastfeeding, respectively according to the strength of the correlation coefficient of each variable in the proposed model. The recommendations of this study were divided into health & environmental, social, and economic work groups that may contribute to decision-making in order to ensure the sustainability of the Egyptian child's health through an ideal weight that will be allowed their effective contribution within the production wheel, progress and shaping the future for the next generations
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