The outcome, number of visits to GPs, is a discrete variable that has a very non-normal distribution.
Pandemic2009 is an indicator variable for the 2009 pandemic period (May 2009 March 2010), Holiday is a discrete variable that counts the number of holidays in a week, and Dec25 and Jan1 are indicator variables for the last week of December and the first week of January.
As for methodological aspects, the variable level of education is measured as a discrete variable that is transformed into dummy according to the median value (primary school).
The mentioned features are the URL size, the number of hyphens, the number of dots, the number of numeric characters plus a discrete variable that correspond to the presence of an IP address in the URL and finally the similarity index.
The primary outcome is a discrete variable that indicates the presence of an adverse occurrence (1 = yes, 0 = no).
*"Reference Group" refers to the level of a discrete variable that was the default group used in the multivariable regression model.
Tmax is a discrete variable that depends on the experimental design so it cannot be interpreted as a continuous value and thus the small punctual difference observed looses practical significance.
We used latent class factor analysis to identify discrete latent variables that best grouped the 12 higher-level physical function (RBN) tasks together (24).
