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February 17, 2011American Journal of NeuroradiologyOpen Access

Analysis by Categorizing or Dichotomizing Continuous Variables Is Inadvisable: An Example from the Natural History of Unruptured Aneurysms

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ONOlivier NaggaraCentre Hospitalier Sainte-AnneJRJean RaymondMontreal General HospitalFGF GuilbertBoston University

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Avoid dichotomizing continuous predictors in cardiology analyses; leaves open standardized guidelines for optimal modeling in observational data.

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Naggara et al. (2011) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d7b6523fae90fd6048ff66https://doi.org/10.3174/ajnr.a2425
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