categorical variable
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categorical
adjective
uk/ˌkæt.əˈɡɒr.ɪ.kəl/us/ˌkæt̬.əˈɡɔːr.ɪ.kəl/
without any doubt or possibility of ...
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variable
noun[C]
uk/ˈveə.ri.ə.bəl/us/ˈver.i.ə.bəl/
a number, amount, or situation that ...
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Firstly, this patronymic indicator is constructed as acategoricalvariableand not as a continuous one.
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The canopy condition was treated as acategoricalvariable.
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Interactions between roughness and flakiness are incorporated indirectly in this newcategoricalvariable.
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Ideally, special education placement would have been treated as acategoricalvariablein all models.
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For eachcategoricalvariable, a subset of categories is found which maximizes that variable's ability to discriminate among the species.
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Categoricalvariablecoded, one child, 2-3 children, 4 or more own children.
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In all of the models with thecategoricalvariable, the coefficients of the other religious variables do not change substantively nor in level of statistical significance.
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Furthermore, site was not significant when entered in the model as acategoricalvariable, and did not influence the overall results.
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Youths in the last category were dropped from the analyses that examined resilience as acategoricalvariable.
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There is considerably more constraint on a continuous variable, in terms of an assumption of linearity, than on acategoricalvariable.
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Therefore, soil texture was an unorderedcategoricalvariable(sand or clay) that was treated as a dummy variable in logistic regression.
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The educational level of the household is acategoricalvariable, which has been reclassified as five dummies, each representing a certain level of educational attainment.
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Which approach produces greater power is then an empirical question that can be answered by analyzing cognitive level as a continuous orcategoricalvariable.
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Thus, we have left only thecategoricalvariableand when we refer to experienced ministers we mean those who have served a spell in a previous government.
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These items were combined into acategoricalvariableof ' frequent drunkenness ' (1 l drunkenness at least twice a month, 2 l drunkenness once a month, 3 l never drunk).
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These include female gender, years of age, years of education and acategoricalvariable(22 categories) reflecting increasing levels of household income.
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A three-levelcategoricalvariablemeasured marital status; the ' separated' and ' divorced' were combined with 'nevermarried ' respondents because these statuses are uncommon among the present cohort of the oldest-old.
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Age was analyzed as acategoricalvariable.
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