Discretizing continuous variables in nutrition and obesity research: a practice that needs to be cut short

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 cross-sect...

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Autores principales: Morera, Osvaldo F., Dane’el, Mosi I., Smith, Brandt A., Redelfs, Alisha H., Ruiz, Sarah L., Preacher, Kristopher J., Whigham, Leah D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10632499/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37938224
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41387-023-00248-0

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10632499/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37938224
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41387-023-00248-0

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