Re: dichotomizing continuous variables:easy question?

[Robert J. MacG. Dawson]

wuzzy wrote:


> the quartiles(dichotomized) might cause a loss of information but it
> might "adjust" for the variable better by filtering out groups of
> people?  am I wrong?

        I'm sorry - what do you mean by "filtering out groups of people" and
why do you want to do it?

        -Robert Dawson
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