Categorisation of built environment characteristics: the trouble with tertiles

BACKGROUND: In the analysis of the effect of built environment features on health, it is common for researchers to categorise built environment exposure variables based on arbitrary percentile cut-points, such as median or tertile splits. This arbitrary categorisation leads to a loss of information...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Lamb, Karen E, White, Simon R
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
Materias:
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4335683/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25889014
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12966-015-0181-9

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4335683/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25889014
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12966-015-0181-9

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