In medical practice many, essentially continuous, clinical parameters tend to be categorised by physicians for ease of decision-making.
Species current distribution in each genus (and outgroups) was compiled from the literature [ 12, 52], and categorised into fireprone and non-fireprone (essentially rainforest) environments that are the two major habitats of extant species in the Proteaceae.
"In the questionnaires they asked essentially what kind of games do you play, and categorised them by genre," says Etchells.
The beauty of football is that it carries something of this, but still evades categorisation by pure mathematics, that it is strange and startling in its beauties; and for all the attempts to categorise, still essentially emotional in nature.
Generally speaking, in medical practice it is quite common for physicians to take many clinical parameters that are essentially continuous variables and categorise them for practical reasons.
Here, the results follow a linear trend and, as the outcome is a binary variable (essentially secondary spread, or no secondary spread) dependent on explanatory variables that can be categorised into multiple levels, the analysis lends itself to a logistic regression.
Conversely, it is essentially rooted in the researcher's exercise of discretion and application of judgment, which cannot be categorised resorting to expert judgment.
It would not be categorised.
They categorised foods into four groups.
Human beings are categorised and, tellingly, divided.
