Categorisation of built environment characteristics: the trouble with tertiles
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Categorisation of built environment characteristics: the trouble with tertiles
BACKGROUND In the analysis of the effect of built environment features on health, it is common for researchers to categorise built environment exposure variables based on arbitrary percentile cut-points, such as median or tertile splits. This arbitrary categorisation leads to a loss of information and a lack of comparability between studies since the choice of cut-point is based on the sample d...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1479-5868
DOI: 10.1186/s12966-015-0181-9