Syrian immigrants long ago successfully petitioned the U.S. government to be categorized as white to avoid discrimination and exclusionary policies meant to stigmatize blacks.
All the variables were categorized in order to avoid any log-linearity assumption and to obtain interpretable results.
Continuous variables were categorized as above to avoid assuming a linear relation with the outcomes and for ease of interpretation.
Moreover, the new Predatory Lending Act makes it easier for lenders to categorize loans and to avoid making high-cost loans, which were subject to the most severe restrictions in the original law, Moody's said.
Tertiles were chosen a priori as the cut points with which to categorize exposure data, to avoid sparse data for rare cancers in the high-exposure categories.
This illustrates that suicide still carries a strongly negative subtext, and on the whole, we exhibit a greater willingness to categorize self-killings intended to avoid one's just deserts as suicides than self-killings intended to benefit others (Beauchamp & Childress 1983, 93 94).
Notice when you try to categorize things and work to avoid placing mental labels on everything.
When we performed this additional adjustment, continuous variables were fitted after categorizing them into quintiles to avoid assuming a linear association between covariate and outcome.
