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Recursive Partitioning Methods to Examine the Effects of Physical Activity on Physical and Mental Health: A Case Study at One Public University in the United States Cover

Recursive Partitioning Methods to Examine the Effects of Physical Activity on Physical and Mental Health: A Case Study at One Public University in the United States

Open Access
|May 2021

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Figure 1

Diagnostic trace plots for the convergence of the Multivariate Imputation by Chained Equations (MICE) iterative Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm.

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Figure 2

Diagnostic plots for the plausibility of Multivariate Imputation by Chained Equations (MICE) imputations.

Table 1

Demographic features representative of the sample participants.

DemographicN = 398*
Sex/GenderEducation
Female301 (76.2)High School34 (15.5)
Male94 (23.8)College/University86 (39.3)
EthnicityGraduate School99 (45.2)
Hispanic22 (5.6)Mother’s Education
Non-Hispanic370 (94.4)Below High School10 (2.8)
RaceHigh School118 (32.9)
Asian25 (6.3)College/University141 (39.3)
Black13 (3.3)Graduate School90 (25.1)
Multiple18 (4.5)Father’s Education
White321 (81.1)Below High School18 (5.1)
Other19 (4.8)High School114 (32.4)
RoleCollege/University131 (37.2)
Admin or Faculty39 (9.9)Graduate School89 (25.3)
Graduate Student63 (16.0)Greek Life
Staff125 (31.7)Current69 (39.9)
Undergraduate167 (42.4)Former8 (4.6)
Age (years)32.3 (14.3)Never96 (55.5)

[i] * For Categorical Variables, table values are Count (%); For Continuous Variables, table values are Mean (SD); Nonresponses/NAs are removed from individual descriptive statistic calculations.

Table 2

Select physical activity measures and reported health of the sample participants.

DemographicN = 398*
Physical Health Composite Score55.3 (5.6)
Mental Health Composite Score42.1 (8.9)
Active/Transport MET Minutes per Week1216 (2102)
Domestic MET Minutes per Week1030 (2129)
Leisure MET Minutes per Week1704 (3306)
Work MET Minutes per Week2227 (4056)
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Figure 3

Regression tree predicting the age-specific mean difference score for physical health.

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Figure 4

Mean variable-importance using the Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE) loss-function for predicting age-specific mean differences in physical health.

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Figure 5

Regression tree predicting the age-specific mean difference score for mental health.

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Figure 6

Mean variable-importance using the Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE) loss-function for predicting age-specific mean differences in mental health.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/paah.98 | Journal eISSN: 2515-2270
Language: English
Submitted on: Apr 19, 2021
Accepted on: Apr 29, 2021
Published on: May 21, 2021
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2021 Samantha Robinson, Jessica Gilmore, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.