The analysis of continuous and categorical independent variables: Alternatives to dichotomization;L'analyse des variables indépendantes continues et catégorielles: Alternatives à la dichotomisation

Annee Psychologique

Volumn , Issue 3, 2002, Pages 449-484

  Brauer, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

Author keywords

Continuous variables; Dichotomization; Mean deviation form; Quantitative variables; Regression analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038020632     PISSN: 00035033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3406/psy.2002.29602     Document Type: Article

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