dichotomous

Examples of dichotomous in the following topics:

• Averages of Qualitative and Ranked Data

  • Examples include, on one hand, dichotomous data with dichotomous (or dichotomized) values such as "sick" versus "healthy" when measuring health, "guilty" versus "innocent" when making judgments in courts, or "wrong/false" versus "right/true" when measuring truth value.
  • On the other hand, non-dichotomous data consisting of a spectrum of values is also included, such as "completely agree," "mostly agree," "mostly disagree," and "completely disagree" when measuring opinion .
  • An opinion survey is an example of a non-dichotomous data set on the ordinal scale for which the central tendency can be described by the median or the mode.

• Collecting and Measuring Data

  • Examples of ordinal data include dichotomous values such as "sick" versus "healthy" when measuring health, "guilty" versus "innocent" when making judgments in courts, "false" versus "true", when measuring truth value.
  • Examples also include non-dichotomous data consisting of a spectrum of values, such as "completely agree", "mostly agree", "mostly disagree", or "completely disagree" when measuring opinion.

• Comparing Two Populations: Paired Difference Experiment

  • It is applied to $2 \times 2$ contingency tables with a dichotomous trait, with matched pairs of subjects, to determine whether the row and column marginal frequencies are equal ("marginal homogeneity").

• Distribution-Free Tests

  • McNemar's test: tests whether, in $2 \times 2$ contingency tables with a dichotomous trait and matched pairs of subjects, row and column marginal frequencies are equal.