Agreement between current status and retrospective data for prevalence and duration of exclusive breast feeding from low- and middle-income countries surveys.

Ana Elisa Madalena Rinaldi Catarina Machado Azeredo Leandro Alves Pereira Bernardo Lessa Horta Wolney Lisbôa Conde

Published in: Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology (2019)

The difference between prevalence and median estimated using current status and retrospective data is little and the agreement ranged to substantial and almost perfect. We suggest the use of retrospective data to estimate duration of EBF in cross-sectional surveys.

Keyphrases

cross sectional
current status
electronic health record
big data
data analysis
machine learning
deep learning