Please help me write my Methods Section for my Research topic: Childhood Obesity

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Please help me write my Methods Section for my Research topic: Childhood Obesity and academic achivement in middle school children. Using statitics from NHIS 2015 Data. Instructions: Please write your methods section (no more than 2 pages). Provide the details of how you will perform your analyses. What variables you choose and describe the type of variables (continuous, categorical, or nominal). If you are going to dichotomize or change the categories of a variable, please explain why. Always, use the APA 6th edition, as your reference style. Don't forget to write the title of your paper

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Methodology:

We can use a measured sample of few U.S. middle school children from the 2009 National Health Interview Survey. Achievement in middle school will be measured from the parent informed number of sick days or the grades obtained. Body mass index can be estimated from parent informed weight and height. Weight of the children will depend on the gender centric body mass index for age indicated by the CDC growth charts. Poisson regression is suggested to conduct for examining the relation between middle school performance and obesity. In this case multivariate analysis can be performed to obtain the desired result. Proportion for each weight will be investigated, ANOVA will play a vital role for distribution analysis. Gender level multinomial logistic regression analysis will also be done. Statistical significance level at p value of 0.05.

Reference:

Kim,Y. and Kawachi, I. (2016). School- and Individual-level Predictors of Weight Status Misperception among Korean Adolescents: A National Online Survey. Public Library of Science, 1-39

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