Effect of dichotomizing a continuous variable on the model structure in multiple linear regression models

Communications in Statistics Part B: Simulation and Computation

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 643-654

  Cumsille, Francisco ^a   Bangdiwala, Shrikant I ^b   Sen, Pranab K ^b   Kupper, Lawrence L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Trivariate normal

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038020634     PISSN: 03610918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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