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Home  »  Learn More  »  Introduction
Instrument Profiles
Key Concepts
Choosing An Approach: Recommendations
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  • Introduction
    • Biomarkers
    • Calibration
    • Combining Instruments
    • Day of Week Effect
    • Diet History
    • Dietary Supplements and Total Nutrient Intakes
    • Energy Adjustment
    • Food Composition Databases for 24HRs & Food Records
    • Food Composition Databases for FFQs & Screeners
    • Group-level Estimates
    • Misreporting
    • Normal Distribution
    • Observation & Feeding Studies
    • Outliers
    • Ratios and Proportions
    • Reactivity
    • Regression Calibration
    • Season Effect
    • Scoring Algorithms for Screeners
    • Social Desirability
    • Software for Dietary Analysis - 24HRs and Food Records
    • Software for Dietary Analysis - FFQs and Screeners
    • Statistical Modeling
    • Surrogate Reporting
    • Technology in Dietary Assessment
    • Usual Dietary Intake
Glossary
References & Resources

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This section provides additional information on specific topics relevant to dietary intake assessment research.

  • Biomarkers
  • Calibration
  • Combining Instruments
  • Day-of-Week Effect
  • Diet History
  • Dietary Supplements and Estimating Total Nutrient Intakes
  • Deriving Group-level Estimates from Individual-level Intakes
  • Energy Adjustment
  • Food Composition Databases for 24-hour Dietary Recalls and Food Records
  • Food Composition Databases for Food Frequency Questionnaires and Screeners
  • Misreporting
  • Normal Distribution
  • Observation and Feeding Studies
  • Outliers
  • Ratios and Proportions
  • Reactivity
  • Regression Calibration
  • Scoring Algorithms for Screeners
  • Season Effect
  • Social Desirability
  • Software for 24-Hour Dietary Recalls (24HR) and Food Records
  • Software for Food Frequency Questionnaires and Screeners
  • Statistical Modeling
  • Surrogate Reporting
  • Technology in Dietary Assessment
  • Usual Dietary Intake

The Learn More overviews in this section of the Primer contain numerous links to other sections, including the Profiles, Key Concepts, Choosing an Approach for Dietary Assessment, and the Glossary. Links with dashed underlines will show you terms from the Glossary. Links with solid underlines will take you to other sections of the Primer.

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