dichotomized

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Because the scores on this procedure were highly skewed, this variable was also dichotomized: children who waited at least 210 seconds before the interviewer returned were classified as high on self-regulation, and children who waited less than

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  1. Divided in half: said of the moon or of one of the inferior planets at the moment when exactly half of the disk is illuminated.

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  • FE65 and Teashirt expression in post-mortem samples were dichotomized at the median value and the mean expression of caspase-4 for each of the four groups in the same samples are shown with standard error of mean. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Because the scores for this procedure were highly skewed, children were dichotomized into 2 groups based on their scores in the self-control procedure: children who waited at least 75 seconds before the interviewer returned were classified as high on self-regulation, and children who waited less than 75 seconds were classified as low on self-regulation. —  Archives of Pediatrics current issue
  • Because the scores on this procedure were highly skewed, this variable was also dichotomized: children who waited at least 210 seconds before the interviewer returned were classified as high on self-regulation, and children who waited less than —  Archives of Pediatrics current issue
  • The primary end point was disability at 90 days, dichotomized as —  Medlogs - Recent stories
  • Because the first point in the report was that African Americans 'support had been overstated, and that it was African Americans and Latinos together that showed (modestly) more support for Prop 8 than Whites and Asians, I then dichotomized people racially. —  Box Turtle Bulletin
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