Association between Major Non-communicable Diseases Risk Factors and Fasting Blood Glucose in Iran: Comparison of Two Techniques, with and Without Dichotomizing the Response
Razieh Bidhendi Yarandi, Mehdi Rahgozar, Jalil Koohpayehzadeh, Ali Rafei, Fereshteh Asgari & Enayatollah Bakhshi · Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research · 2013
Background: Dichotomizing a continuous outcome variable is a common approach to estimate the odds ratio (OR) as a measure of association. In the present study we aimed to compare a non-dichotomizing technique with logistic regression which exploits dichotomizing the response for...
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10.9734/BJMMR/2014/6951