Re: Are graded clinical signs more reliable than dichotomized?



John Uebersax wrote:
Frank E Harrell Jr wrote:


Anything is better than a binary variable. The more levels the better.


Then should we scrap cancer staging systems and replace them with
100-point scales?

In some cases, yes. But a 4-stage grading on an attribute is pretty good.

Frank


John
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John Uebersax PhD

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