0 involving two completely opposing ideas or things:
Three dichotomous control variables are also used in the analysis.
Once again, replacing the continuous score with the dichotomous score for institutional democracy does not change the sign and statistical significance level of media openness.
Dichotomous measures (democracy\authoritarianism) are particularly prone to this deficiency.
We used a dichotomous variable to indicate whether the physician agrees strongly or agrees somewhat with the above statement (versus otherwise).
Put differently, pitting a continuous variable for institutional democracy against our dichotomous media variable may blur the comparison, because they are constructed differently.
Probandwise concordance rates and tetrachoric correlations calculated for the dichotomous variable.
Since the dependent variable is dichotomous, logistic regression is used to estimate the models.
Based on the diagnostic interview and maternal report, dichotomous variables were coded to indicate whether each parent had a history of antisocial behavior.
