A two-valued qualitative variable can be represented by a single 0-or-1-valued "dummy" variable. If a qualitative variable has three or more possible values (e.g., make-of-car, or marital-status), ...
The American Statistician strives to publish articles of general interest to the statistical profession on topics that are important for a broad group of statisticians, and ordinarily not highly ...
The purpose of this study was to determine whether adjustments for the differential prediction observed among sex, racial/ethnic, or age subgroups in one freshman class at a college could be used to ...