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dichotomize verb apportion, bifurcate, bisect, branch, cleave in two, cut in halves, cut in two, detach, disjoin, dissect, dissever, disunite, divaricate, divide, fragment, furcate, halve, keep apart, part, partition, rend, rive, section, sectionalize, segment, separate in two, sever, split, subdivide, transect How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| It is likely that the decision to dichotomize the ROM and muscle performance variables improved the reliability of those measurements; however, it is also likely that dichotomizing these variables resulted in some loss of measurement precision, which may have attenuated the relationship of these variables to outcome. However, it appears that her focus on mothering occasionally leads her to dichotomizing classification between mothers and non-mothers. That this analysis was not statistically significant, while the analysis of the AGI as continuous variable was, is not surprising; dichotomizing a continuous variable results in a loss of power, and thus a larger sample size is needed to achieve a similar level of statistical significance (Ragland 2002). |
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