Table 3.

Effect of categorization of variables on classification indices with different sample sizes (based on the first random sampling)

n	Q		B		% Classification Error
	LR	LDA	LR	LDA	LR	LDA
50	0.14323	0.14228	0.79442	0.79424	34	34
100	0.22965	0.22651	0.81936	0.81871	25	25
150	0.14863	0.14278	0.7939	0.79359	31.3	31.3
200	0.16303	0.16015	0.79902	0.79866	32	32
220	0.17487	0.16748	0.80141	0.8005	31.8	31.8
Total sample	0.16162	0.15824	0.79809	0.79781	32.5	32.5