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2019 Mar 28
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default for 'signif.stars'
...the worst defaults ever added
to R.?? I would be delighted to see it removed, or at least change the default.? It is one
of the few overrides that I have argued to add to our site-wide defaults file.
My bias comes from 30+ years in a medical statistics career where fighting the disease of
"dichotomania" has been an eternal struggle.? Continuous covariates are split in two,
nuanced risk scores are thresholded, decisions become yes/no, ....??? Adding stars to
output is, to me, simply a gateway drug to this pernicous addiction.?? We shouldn't
encourage it.
Wrt Abe's rant about the N...
2019 Mar 28
0
default for 'signif.stars'
...ded to R.?? I would be delighted to see it removed, or
> at least change the default.? It is one of the few overrides that I
> have argued to add to our site- wide defaults file.
>
> My bias comes from 30+ years in a medical statistics career where
> fighting the disease of "dichotomania" has been an eternal struggle.?
> Continuous covariates are split in two, nuanced risk scores are
> thresholded, decisions become yes/no, ....??? Adding stars to output
> is, to me, simply a gateway drug to this pernicous addiction.?? We shouldn't encourage it.
>
> Wrt A...