Mitigating underreported error in food frequency questionnaire data using a supervised machine learning method and error adjustment algorithm.

Journal: BMC medical informatics and decision making
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Food frequency questionnaires (FFQs) are one of the most useful tools for studying and understanding diet-disease relationships. However, because FFQs are self-reported data, they are susceptible to response bias, social desirability bias, and misclassification. Currently, several methods have been created to combat these issues by modelling the measurement error in diet-disease relationships.

Authors

  • Anjolaoluwa Ayomide Popoola
    Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA.
  • Jennifer Koren Frediani
    Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
  • Terryl Johnson Hartman
    Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
  • Kamran Paynabar
    Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA. kpaynabar3@gatech.edu.