Bulletin of Electrical Engineering and Informatics
Vol 12, No 4: August 2023

Segmenting the eating behaviour of university students using the K-means algorithm

Lenin Quiñones Huatangari (Universidad Nacional de Jaén)
María Alina Cueva Ríos (Universidad Nacional de Jaén)
Rafaela Teodosia Huerta Camones (Universidad Nacional Enrique Guzmán y Valle)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Aug 2023

Abstract

Universities that teach arts education do not only teach how to play an instrument or conduct musical ensembles; they are agents of change in eating behaviour for the praxis of teaching and dissemination of healthy education. The objective of the research was to segment the eating behaviour of students of the artistic education-music speciality of the National University of Education "Enrique Guzmán y Valle" by applying the K-means algorithm. To do this, the methodology consisted of understanding the problem, understanding the data collected, preparing the data, modelling and evaluating the model. For modelling, the free software Weka was used through the K-means clustering technique on a data matrix of 148 instances with forty-three nominal variables collected online based on an instrument designed and validated to assess eating behaviour in university students. Two was determined to be the optimal clustering for eating behaviour in university students, using the elbow method, with a distribution of 49% for the first cluster and 51% for the second cluster. The results of the study population showed that the eating behaviour of university students is adequate.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

EEI

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Subject

Electrical & Electronics Engineering

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Bulletin of Electrical Engineering and Informatics (Buletin Teknik Elektro dan Informatika) ISSN: 2089-3191, e-ISSN: 2302-9285 is open to submission from scholars and experts in the wide areas of electrical, electronics, instrumentation, control, telecommunication and computer engineering from the ...