Recently LOINC has been looking at tests that have ranges and non-linearity of some assays, where the “numeric” value could be presumed to be linear because it is a number when it is not a linear scale.
The document is written by Michael K Martin, DVM, MPH, DACVPM, on when more or less continuous values are grouped into smaller categories for reporting called
Binning (Bucketing)
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