Numeric2Binary function

Converts a numeric variable into a binary one

Converts a numeric variable into a binary one using a cut point

Numeric2Binary(y, name= "MyVar", cut = NULL)

Arguments

• y: Vector containing the numeric values
• name: Name of the variable
• cut: Cut point to cut the values of the variable. If is NULL the median is used.

Details

Converts a numeric variable into a binary one using a cut point. If the cut is NULL the median is used.

Returns

A binary Variable

Author(s)

Jose Luis Vicente-Villardon

See Also

Dataframe2BinaryMatrix

Examples

y=c(1, 1.2, 3.2, 2.4, 1.7, 2.2, 2.7, 3.1)
Numeric2Binary(y)