Against quantiles: categorization of continuous variables in epidemiologic research, and its discontents
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- 29 February 2012
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Medical Research Methodology
- Vol. 12 (1), 21
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-12-21
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