Self-Organizing Maps of Nutrition, Lifestyle and Health Situation in the World

Reference:

Yasir Mehmood, Mudassar Abbas, Xi Chen, and Timo Honkela. Self-organizing maps of nutrition, lifestyle and health situation in the world. In Advances in Self-Organizing Maps - Proceedings of WSOM 2011, 8th International Workshop, pages 160–167. Springer, 2011.

Abstract:

In this article, we present an analysis of the impact of nutrition and lifestyle on health at a global level. We have used Self-organizing Maps (SOM) algorithm as the analysis technique. SOM enables us to visualize the relative position of each country against a set of variables related to nutrition, lifestyle and health. The positioning of the countries follows the basic understanding of their status with respect to their socioeconomic conditions. We have also studied the relationships between the variables supported by the SOM visualization. This analysis presents many obvious correlations but also some surprising findings that are worth further analyses.

Suggested BibTeX entry:

@inproceedings{Mehmood11,
    author = {Yasir Mehmood and Mudassar Abbas and Xi Chen and Timo Honkela},
    booktitle = {Advances in Self-Organizing Maps - Proceedings of WSOM 2011, 8th International Workshop},
    language = {en},
    pages = {160-167},
    publisher = {Springer},
    title = {Self-Organizing Maps of Nutrition, Lifestyle and Health Situation in the World},
    year = {2011},
}

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