Binary data

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Data that can have only two values, such as dead or alive, smoker or non-smoker, present or absent, or man or woman.

Note: This is a specific case of a categorical data, where the number of categories is equal to 2.

Syn.: dichotomous data.

Reference

http://htaglossary.net/binary-data