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

DOI10.1080/03610926.2016.1248783MaRDI QIDQ4595869zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

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Publication date 6 December 2017

Published in Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://europepmc.org/articles/pmc6020169

zbMATH Keywords

relative riskbioinformaticschi-squarekappa statisticepigeneticsdichotomizationmethod evaluationdisease interactionsYouden's Gini indexYouden's statistics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) General biostatistics (92B15)

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