Nearly 2,500 years ago, long before Mr. Doubleday didn't invent baseball in 1839, Protagoras characterized our lamentable tendency to portray all complex issues as dichotomies of us against them: "There are two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other".
Grade level, career interest, and career activities were coded as dichotomies for the regression analysis as follows: grade level (grade 9 = 1, grade 7 = 0), career interests (rated in top 2 favorites = 1, not rated in top 2 favorites = 0), career activities (rated in top 2 favorites = 1, not rated in top 2 favorites = 0).
Options appear as dichotomies, reflecting a lack of gray area where discussion would otherwise be.
The outcomes considering to move, and, considering to move abroad were operationalised as dichotomies.
The answers were coded as dichotomies ('0' for any level of disagreement, '1' for any level of agreement).
Sex and admission variables were handled as dichotomies, while age, length of stay, number of comorbidity conditions and inappropriate days variables were handled as a continuum.
The principles included the combination of conceptual- and policy-driven scoring systems, items scored as dichotomies or trichotomies, hypothesis-driven classification into positive or negative subscales for expected effects on physical activity, and the inclusion of a hierarchy of scores from construct-specific to aggregated.
Signatures are shown as dichotomies: HR+/HER2− vs. not, luminal (A and B) vs. the other intrinsic subtypes (HER2 enriched, basal, and normal-like), p53 wild type vs. mutation, 70-gene prognosis low vs. high (only 139(9%) patients are in the low risk prognosis group), and wound-quiescent vs. wound-activated.
But that's a false dichotomy: As important as close relationships are, weaker ties also have their place.
The relation with parity as a dichotomy and as multiple categories was examined for each set; multi-level logistic regression (MLLR) was employed to produce adjusted models.
