Early childhood caries in Romania: non-linear and spatial analysis of geographic sugar intake using LOESS, GAMs, and choropleth mapping.

Front Oral Health · 2026 · PMC13201454 · PMID 42205175

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The GAMs tests in relation to the counties for total sugar intake the test is highly significant with an edf=1.42, F = 2.79, p < .001, with adjusted R 2 of about 0.05, indicating that the county level differences explain a small to moderate fraction of the variation in total sugar intake.

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