Proper handling of continuous variables is crucial in healthcare research, for example, within regression modelling for descriptive, explanatory, or predictive purposes. However, inadequate methods ...

Classifying a variable as a particular type of data is important when considering how to present the data. Data can be presented in a number of ways, which depends on the type of variable and the uses ...

The estimation of empirical models is essential to public policy analysis and social science research. Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression analysis is the most frequently used empirical model, and ...

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C (Applied Statistics), Vol. 30, No. 2 (1981), pp. 116-124 (9 pages) This paper develops a maximum likelihood method for estimating a piecewise ...