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We used a dummy variableencoding for the genotypes where n-1 dummy variables areused for n levels [ 40 ] . We simulated 100data sets of each epistasis model with two functional SNPs.
Morris' 800 pages brings you no closer to understanding why, on this immensely important question, the wise men proved to be wrong and the dummy proved to be right.
Scalia as regressive; balls as metaphor; Clarence Thomas as ventriloquist's dummy.
Multivariate comparisons were made using generalized linear modeling, with post-onset LOS and hospital charges as dependent variables and study center (coded as dummy variables) as the main covariate, adjusting for age, sex, Charlson comorbidity score, discharge DRG weight, organ dysfunction (ARDS, uncontrolled hemorrhage, moderate or severe liver disease, or acute renal failure), and service (surgical versus medical) at onset of sepsis.
Reproductive history was represented by dummy variables, indicating whether the subject had children, and, if so, the number of children (one, two, or more than two children) and the age at which the first child was born (before age 24, between ages 25 and 29 inclusive, or age 30 or older).