… and promising statistical method to derive dietary patterns predictive of diseases or health
… applied to identify and examine dietary patterns predictive of health outcomes. Hence, our …

… dietary data and on the statistical methods to be applied. The … strategic thoughts into dietary
pattern analysis. Particularly, … approaches to derive DPs, and highlight their uses, peculiarities…

… of nutritional epidemiology has gradually shifted from single nutrients to dietary patterns,
focusing on features of the entire diet [1]… applying this method to the analysis of dietary patterns. …

… The application of each statistical method depends on the aim of the study. Posteriori dietary
patterns do not always introduce dietary patterns … patterns (9,26). Section 3.2 discussed the …

… dietary pattern methods may not integrate sufficient dietary … , making the use of traditional
statistical methods difficult (8). … provided for in classical statistical analysis. The specific size of …

… nutritional epidemiology for dietary patterns. Since that time, … the applications and use of
dietary patterns evidence and … Cluster analysis is a statistical method that aims to describe …

… expression profile among individuals following different dietary patterns; and in lipidomics, …
For these reasons, the use of a biomarker in nutritional epidemiology should be preceded …

… the application and reporting of dietary pattern assessment … In the two studies that used CA,
the same statistical method … observational studies in nutritional epidemiology were published …

… to apply three statistical methods to identify the DP of the Longitudinal Study of Adult Health
(… TT has been recently applied in nutritional epidemiology to identify DP as a method that …

… Various statistical methods are available for this purpose. A … Habitual diet is currently used
to derive most dietary patterns … dietary intake at the meal-level requires that we use specific …