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Re:Analyst, measure thyself by carbocation on Thursday May 03, 2012 @02:08PM (#3924990)
Absent underlying qualitative differences, there is rarely a good reason to break a continuous distribution into discrete groups for modeling purposes or for model performance evaluation[1].

But for human consumption (and I believe this article is an example of that), it can help. It's basically an ocular Hosmer-Lemeshow; not a rigorous or even consistent approach to model performance evaluation, but often interesting to those consuming the model's output. For example, we do it here to give students a sense of what their chances have meant historically: https://www.parchment.com/c/college/college-1404-University-...

[1] See the Hosmer-Lemeshow test, now uncommonly used.

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