fncut {practicalSigni}

fncut auxiliary converts continuous data into two categories

Description

This is an internal function of the R package practicalSigni Psychologists use effect size to evaluate the practical importance of a treatment on a dependent variable using a binary [0,1] variable. Assuming numerical data, we can always compute the median and regard values < or = the median as zero and other values as unity.

Usage

fncut(x)

Arguments

x

numerical vector of data values

Value

x vector of zeros and ones split at the median.

Author(s)

Prof. H. D. Vinod, Fordham University, NY