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Week #4 - Dichotomous

(outcome or variable) means "having only two possible values", e.g.

"yes/no", "male/female", "head/tail."  The concept is the essence of simplicity, yet statistical methods for dealing with dichotomous data are more involved and complex than those dealing with continuous data.

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