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Criticises the common habit of turning continuous outcomes in binary ones by using an arbitrary cutpoint.
Discusses the loss of efficiency and the dangers of interpretation attendant upon dichotomisation.
This page is a summary of: Disappointing dichotomies, Pharmaceutical Statistics, October 2003, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/pst.90.
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