This specific coding scheme is called "dummy coding," and it is extremely common. Because it is both a binary variable and coded this way, the mean is actually still useful! It's your job to find out what this mean represents in this specific circumstance: Essentials of Statistics for ...
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(outcome) variables. If so, we use proportions or percentages as descriptive statistics for summarizing such variables. For instance, people may or may consider buying a new car in 2017. We might want to know thepercentageof people who do. This question is answered with either abinomial test...
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Dummy Encoding Dummy coding scheme is similar to one-hot encoding. This categorical data encoding method transforms the categorical variable into a set of binary variables (also known as dummy variables). In the case of one-hot encoding, for N categories in a variable, it uses N binary variab...
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Stepwise regression does not favor any variable, but rather uses only statistics to choose which variables enter into an equation; this lack of theory and strict reliance on math has led some to criticize its use (Thompson, 1995). In our case, this study does not purport to be causal, ...
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where each of the three facial features is dummy coded relative to their midpoint (zero), nose (thin, wide: NT, NW), lips (thin, full: LT, LF), and reflectance (no, high: RN, RH): γ21t&γ22tare the fixed effects of thin and wide nose (relative to average nose) upon traitt...