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Analysis by Categorizing or Dichotomizing Continuous Variables Is Inadvisable: An Example from the Natural History of Unruptured Aneurysms

In medical research analyses, continuous variables are often converted into categoric variables by grouping values into ≥2 categories. The simplicity achieved by creating ≥2 artificial groups has a cost: Grouping may create rather than avoid problems. In particular, dichotomization leads to a consid...

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Publicado en:AJNR Am J Neuroradiol
Autores principales: Naggara, O., Raymond, J., Guilbert, F., Roy, D., Weill, A., Altman, D.G.
Formato: Artigo
Lenguaje:Inglês
Publicado: American Society of Neuroradiology 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8013096/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21330400
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3174/ajnr.A2425
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