Insight into the main determinants of the struggle against overweight and obesity in Chile: Use of random forest techniques and econometric models

• Francisca Romo-Muñoz ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ FRM and RRM are contributed equally to this work and share first authorship.

  Affiliation Magister in Statistics, Department of Statistics, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile

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• Rodrigo Romo-Muñoz ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rromo@ubiobio.cl

  ¶‡ FRM and RRM are contributed equally to this work and share first authorship.

  Affiliations Business Management Department, Universidad del Bío-Bío, Chillán, Chile, Economics, Agri-Food Management and Population Health Research Group, Universidad del Bío-Bío, Chillán, Chile

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6839-8834

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• Sebastián Niklitschek-Soto,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Statistics, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile

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• Cristhian Aguilera-Carrasco,

  Roles Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Universidad del Bío-Bío, Concepción, Chile

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• José M. Gil

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Agro-food Economy and Development (CREDA-UPC-IRTA), Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3313-9052

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