Associations of neighborhood walkability with moderate to vigorous physical activity: an application of compositional data analysis comparing compositional and non-compositional approaches

• Main Authors: Madeleine Bird (Author), Geetanjali D Datta (Author), Deanna Chinerman (Author), Lisa Kakinami (Author), Marie-Eve Mathieu (Author), Mélanie Henderson (Author), Tracie A Barnett (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2022-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background We compared the relation between neighborhood features and moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) using linear regression analysis and the more novel compositional data analysis (CoDA). Compositional data analysis allows us to take the time children allocate to different m...