“Cake causes herpes?” - promiscuous dichotomisation induces false positives
Abstract Background Continuous biomedical data is often dichotomized into two or more groups for analysis, despite long-standing warnings from statisticians that this constitutes bad practice. This dichotomisation is typically discouraged because it reduces statistical power and may obscure importan...
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BMC
2025-11-01
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| Col·lecció: | BMC Medical Research Methodology |
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| Accés en línia: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-025-02712-0 |
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