Spurious interaction as a result of categorization

Spurious interaction as a result of categorization

Abstract Background It is common in applied epidemiological and clinical research to convert continuous variables into categorical variables by grouping values into categories. Such categorized variables are then often used as exposure variables in some regression model. There are numerous statistic...

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Main Author: Magne Thoresen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-02-01
Series:BMC Medical Research Methodology
Subjects:
Categorization
Dichotomization
Interaction
Regression
Measurement error
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12874-019-0667-2

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