Identifying dietary consumption patterns from survey data: a Bayesian nonparametric latent class model

2023/11/13 by Briana Stephenson, Briana J K Stephenson, Stephanie M Wu +1
Computer Science · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Medicine · #Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models #Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets #Nutritional Studies and Diet

paper · pdf · doi:10.1093/jrsssa/qnad135

openalex publication_date 2023/11/13 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/23

Abstract

Dietary assessments provide the snapshots of population-based dietary habits. Questions remain about how generalisable those snapshots are in national survey data, where certain subgroups are sampled disproportionately. We propose a Bayesian overfitted latent class model to derive dietary patterns, accounting for survey design and sampling variability. Compared to standard approaches, our model showed improved identifiability of the true population pattern and prevalence in simulation. We focus application of this model to identify the intake patterns of adults living at or below the 130% poverty income level. Five dietary patterns were identified and characterised by reproducible code/data made available to encourage further research.

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