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Section I: Food security policy analysis: Introduction to food security: concepts and measurement -- Implications of technological change, postharvest technology, and technology adoption for improved food security--application of t-statistic -- Effects of commercialization of agriculture (shift from traditional crop to cash crop) on food consumption and nutrition--application of chi-square statistic -- Effects of technology adoption and gender of household head: the issue, its importance in food security--application of Cramer's V and phi coefficient -- Changes in food consumption patterns: its importance to food security--application of one-way ANOVA -- Impact of market access on food security--application of factor analysis.
Section II: Nutrition policy analysis: Impact of maternal education and care on preschoolers' nutrition--application of two-way ANOVA -- Indicators and causal factors of nutrition--application of correlation analysis -- Effects of individual, household, and community indicators on child's nutritional status--application of simple linear regression -- Maternal education and community characteristics as indicators of nutritional status of children--application of multivariate regression.
Section III: Special topics on poverty, nutrition, and food policy analysis: Predicting child nutritional status using related socioeconomic variables--application of discriminant function analysis -- Measurement and determinants of poverty--application of logistic regression models -- Classifying households on food security and poverty dimensions--application of K-Means cluster analysis -- Household care as a determinant of nutritional status--application of instrumental variable estimation -- Achieving an ideal diet--modeling with linear programming -- Food and nutrition program evaluation -- Multidimensional poverty and policy.
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