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Criticises the common habit of turning continuous outcomes in binary ones by using an arbitrary cutpoint.

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Discusses the loss of efficiency and the dangers of interpretation attendant upon dichotomisation.

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This page is a summary of: Disappointing dichotomies, Pharmaceutical Statistics, October 2003, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/pst.90.
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