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For more than 40 years, SAGE has been one of the leading international publishers of works on quantitative research methods in the social sciences. This new collection provides readers with a representative sample of the best articles in quantitative methods that have appeared in SAGE journals as chosen by W. Paul Vogt, editor of other successful major reference collections such as Selecting Research Methods (2008) and Data Collection (2010).
The volumes and articles are organized by theme rather than by discipline. Although there are some discipline-specific methods, most often quantitative research methods cut across disciplinary boundaries.
The Cost of Dichotomization
The Cost of Dichotomization
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It is a frequent procedure in the behavioral and social sciences to dichotomize “continuous” (more accurately, graduated) variables. Some researchers follow this practice in order to simplify the data analysis, ...