An evaluation of common methods for dichotomization of continuous variables to discriminate disease status

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Communications in statistics: theory and methods

• Publication date

  2017-08-02

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Mathematics

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  DOI 10.1080/03610926.2016.1248783PMID 29962658PMCID PMC6020169
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