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The Bidirectional Relationship between Body Weight and Depression across Gender: A Simultaneous Equation Approach
2021
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Purpose: This study investigates the bidirectional relationship between body weight and depression for both males and females in the U.S. Methods: Data are drawn from the 2019 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), and a simultaneous ordered probability system is estimated with maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) to accommodate the two-way causality between depression and body weight categories. The variable of depression is measured by individuals' past depressive records and
doi:10.3390/ijerph18147673
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