When should you bin your continuous variables?

Binning data can provide you with new perspectives. Article includes a secret formula to get best of both worlds

Kuan Rong Chan, Ph.D.
Omics Diary
Published in
2 min readDec 12, 2023

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Analysing data by binning continuous variables allows you to identify measurements with big effect sizes. Data from our recent publication by Ong et al., npj Vaccines, 2022

Do you know that continuous variables can be converted to discrete variables by binning? For instance, to look at genes associated with age, one can visualise the correlation between gene abundance…

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Kuan Rong Chan, Ph.D.
Omics Diary

Kuan Rong Chan, PhD, Senior Principal Research Scientist in Duke-NUS Medical School. Virologist | Data Scientist | Loves mahjong | Website: kuanrongchan.com