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The danger of dichotomizing continuous variables: A visualization
Author(s) -
Kuss Oliver
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
teaching statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.425
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9639
pISSN - 0141-982X
DOI - 10.1111/test.12006
Subject(s) - statistics , mathematics , visualization , econometrics , computer science , data mining
Four rather different scatterplots of two variables X and Y are given, which, after dichotomizing X and Y, result in identical fourfold‐tables misleadingly showing no association.