Foods that we eat and their relationship to health

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  • SPSS or SAS or PSPP or … and CANDAT

    SPSS, SAS  (or other good statistical packages) is used to process Candat calculations into results for your scientific report. At its most detailed Candat will produce data files consisting of: Subject code Date Day of Week code (0-6, where 0 is Sunday) Food Group code Meal code Food code Food description Nutrient variables (Weight of…

  • Week-weighted Averages in CANDAT

    When expressing and comparing results of multi-day (3 day commonly) food recalls one tends to use the average daily intake as a measure of a subject’s intake. Of course, 7 day recalls will give more accurate estimates of this daily intake and the accuracy will increase if all the days of a week are used.…