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Adolescent relational behaviour and the obesity pandemic: A descriptive study applying social network analysis and machine learning techniques.

Pilar Marqués-SánchezMaría Cristina Martínez-FernándezJosé Alberto Benítez-AndradesEnedina Quiroga-SánchezMaría Teresa García-OrdásNatalia Arias-Ramos
Published in: PloS one (2023)
Adolescents form subgroups within their classrooms. Subgroup cohesion is defined by the fact that nodes share similarities in aspects that influence obesity, they share attributes related to food quality and gender. The concept of homophily, related to SNA, justifies our results. Artificial intelligence techniques together with the application of the Girvan-Newman provide robustness to the structural analysis of similarities and cohesion between subgroups.
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