le. When that explanatory variable is categorical, the model shape consists of potentially different values for each level of the explanatory variable. <a href="#fig-single-categorical" class="quarto-xref">Figure&nbsp;<span class="quarto-unresolved-ref">fig-single-categorical</span></a> shows two examples:</p>
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