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Use of generalised additive models to categorise continuous variables in clinical prediction

BACKGROUND: In medical practice many, essentially continuous, clinical parameters tend to be categorised by physicians for ease of decision-making. Indeed, categorisation is a common practice both in medical research and in the development of clinical prediction rules, particularly where the ensuing...

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Autores principales: Barrio, Irantzu, Arostegui, Inmaculada, Quintana, José M, Group, IRYSS-COPD
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3716996/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23802742
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-13-83