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Modelling continuous data

Gilbert Welch and colleagues have written an interesting essay contrasting continuous and categorical approaches to modelling the relation between exposure and health effects.[1][1] They suggest that assuming a continuous relation between exposure and outcome may produce misleading results and state

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