Statistical methods and software used in nutrition and dietetics research: A review of the published literature using text mining.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

Dietitians must be statistically literate to effectively interpret the scientific literature underpinning the discipline. Despite this, no study has been conducted that objectively identifies common statistical methods and packages specific to current nutrition and dietetics literature. This study aimed to identify statistical methods and software frequently used in nutrition and dietetics research.

Methods

A text mining approach using the bag-of-words method was applied to a random sample of articles obtained from all journals in the 'Nutrition and Dietetics' subject category within the SCImago Journal and Country Rank portal and published in 2018. A list of 229 statistical terms and 19 statistical software packages was developed to define the search terms to be mined.

SUBMITTER: Coenen A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8362035 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature