Discretizing continuous variables in nutrition and obesity research: a practice that needs to be cut short
Abstract Background/objectives Nutrition and obesity researchers often dichotomize or discretize continuous independent variables to conduct an analysis of variance to examine group differences. We describe consequences associated with dichotomizing and discretizing continuous variables using two cr...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2023-11-01
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| Series: | Nutrition & Diabetes |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41387-023-00248-0 |