Comparing the effects of continuous and discrete covariate mismeasurement, with emphasis on the dichotomization of mismeasured predictors

Biometrics

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 878-887

  Gustafson, Paul ^a   Le, Nhu D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dichotomization of predictors; Measurement error; Misclassification

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CONTINUOUS MEASUREMENTS; COVARIATES; DICHOTOMIZATION OF PREDICTOR; LOGISTICS REGRESSIONS; MEASUREMENTS OF; MISCLASSIFICATION PROBABILITY; MISCLASSIFICATIONS; MODEL LINKING; PREDICTOR VARIABLES; REGRESSION COEFFICIENT;

MEASUREMENT ERRORS;

BIOMETRY;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; COVARIANCE; DATA ANALYSIS; EXPERIENCE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036966406     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.2002.00878.x     Document Type: Article

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