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Binning means grouping a continuous variable into discrete categories. It is particularly used in reference to histograms, but could also be used more generally in the sense of coarsening.
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When should we discretize/bin continuous independent variables/features and when should not?
Aggregation is substantively meaningful (whether or not the researcher is aware of that).
One should bin data, including independent variables, based on the data itself when one wants:
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