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The general philosophy of this book is that the qualitative behaviour of a system can often be treated in terms of two-valued variables. Obviously, this is not always so ; a variable can have a number of values which sometimes do not correspond to a quantitative scale (for instance, the variable “colour” can have the values “red”, “yellow”, “blue”, “green”, a.s.o.), or which can be ordered along a quantitative scale. In the latter case, one might use a continuous treatment for the variable(s) which seem to require it, or approximate this continuous treatment by dividing the range of this variable into equal intervals.
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Van Ham, P. (1979). How to deal with variables with more than two levels. In: Thomas, R. (eds) Kinetic Logic A Boolean Approach to the Analysis of Complex Regulatory Systems. Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, vol 29. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-49321-8_15
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