On the Practice of Dichotomization of Quantitative Variables¶
MacCallum, R. C., Zhang, S., Preacher, K. J., & Rucker, D. D. (2002). On the Practice of Dichotomization of Quantitative Variables. Psychological Methods, 7(1), 19-40.
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- Threshold Band Map
- Its failure mode is the clustering illusion and the tyranny of the boundary — bands impose hard categorical lines on a continuous proximity axis
This sourceShows that dichotomizing a continuous variable imposes an artificial cut point and treats observations on opposite sides as categorically different.
- Its failure mode is the clustering illusion and the tyranny of the boundary — bands impose hard categorical lines on a continuous proximity axis
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