Leave ‘em Alone – Why Continuous Variables Should Be Analyzed as Such
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Leave 'em alone - why continuous variables should be analyzed as such.
found that models with a categorized exposure variable removed only 67% of the confounding controlled when the continuous version was used. Categorizing continuous variables may not only miss the message, it can also get it wrong. Under some circumstances, categorizing continuous variables can give biased results. In a simulation study, Taylor and Yu [6] found that categorizing one continuous v...
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عنوان ژورنال: Neuroepidemiology
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1423-0208,0251-5350
DOI: 10.1159/000126908