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The Danger of Testing by Selecting Controlled Subsets, with Applications to Spoken-Word Recognition

When examining the effects of a continuous variable x on an outcome y, a researcher might choose to dichotomize on x, dividing the population into two sets—low x and high x—and testing whether these two subpopulations differ with respect to y. Dichotomization has long been known to incur a cost in s...

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Autores principales: Liben-Nowell, David, Strand, Julia, Sharp, Alexa, Wexler, Tom, Woods, Kevin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Ubiquity Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6634384/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31517221
http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/joc.51