Privacy conceptions and metaphorical frames form an ecosystem where diversity is important rather than categorising conceptions as correct or mistaken.
Rather than categorising music as jazz, or minimal, or techno, we should think about concepts that cut paths across genre – like "dense" music, for instance, or "sad" music.
Raw data are collected for all variables rather than categorised, derived or aggregated data or scores.
Rather than categorising or dichotomising variables, we have opted to retain the richness of our data to optimise diagnostic performance.
Rather than categorising patients at the cellular level (as is the case with pharmacogenetics), EBM focuses on the categorisation of patients based on age, gender and family history.
Capturing measures specifically tied to both accessibility and availability of services, rather than categorising health plans according to urban rural status, England presents an entirely different approach to integrating geography into a formula.
Independent predictor variables considered to be mandatory in the model were the closure time (utilising continuous rather than the categorised values; the main predictor of interest) and the TIMI risk score (representing standard clinical information to predict ACS outcomes).
Therefore, we chose to explore the direct association of a wide range of different liver injury biomarkers with CVD rather than attempt to categorise chronic liver disease based on what would be arbitrary cut-points.
Studies of populations and groups call for summarised data; nevertheless, for these it will usually be better to analyse any or all of the summed scores as continuous variables, which they are (although usually highly skewed), rather than reduce them to categorised grades with considerable loss of data.
As statistical power necessitated analysis at regional rather than country level, countries were categorised into regions using the ABS's Standard Australian Classification of Countries[ 25].
