Factors Associated with Vitamin D Deficiency and Their Relative Importance among Indian Adolescents: An Application of Dominance Analysis
Table 5
Conditional dominance table.
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Number of independent variables in the model (order)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Age
0.0048
0.0067
0.0067
0.0058
0.0049
0.004
0.0034
0.0029
0.0026
Sex
0.072
0.067
0.0614
0.0561
0.0513
0.047
0.0434
0.0401
0.0373
Area
0.0171
0.0143
0.0119
0.0099
0.0082
0.0069
0.0057
0.0046
0.0035
Wealth index
0.0261
0.023
0.0202
0.0179
0.0161
0.0146
0.0134
0.0124
0.0115
Body mass index
0.0057
0.0069
0.0061
0.0047
0.0033
0.0022
0.0016
0.0013
0.0012
MUAC
0.0003
0.0037
0.0044
0.0039
0.003
0.0022
0.0014
0.0007
0.0001
TSFT
0.0347
0.0317
0.0267
0.0212
0.0158
0.0111
0.0071
0.0038
0.0012
Serum creatinine
0.0318
0.0304
0.0272
0.0235
0.02
0.017
0.0146
0.0126
0.011
Glycosylated hemoglobin
0.0004
0.0004
0.0004
0.0003
0.0003
0.0002
0.0001
0.0001
0.000
The bold values are those values which are found substantially dominant in the conditional dominance. For example sex, the conditional dominance statistics are highest for sex at each order.