Binary Variable/Examples/Presence or Absence
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Example of Binary Variable
The presence or absence of a bacterium in a clinical sample be implemented as a binary variable.
Hence, for example, absent may be encoded as $0$, and present as $1$.
Sources
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): binary variable
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): binary variable