Misclassification Phenomena in Categorical Data Analysis: Regression Toward the Mean and Tendency Toward the Mode

doi:10.4324/9781410612021-3

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Misclassification Phenomena in Categorical Data Analysis: Regression Toward the Mean and Tendency Toward the Mode

ABSTRACT

“Regression toward the mean is as inevitable as death and taxes. … But even more remarkable than the ubiquitousness of regression toward the mean is how commonly the phenomenon is misunderstood, usually with undesirable consequences.”