Bias and efficiency loss due to categorizing an explanatory variable

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 248-263

  Taylor, Jeremy M G ^a   Yu, Menggang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Discretization; Outpoints; Regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036797020     PISSN: 0047259X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmva.2001.2045     Document Type: Article

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