I am trying to determine the association between stunting and a specific biomarker, in a model adjusted for gender and age, but also random effects. Age has been split into categories (based on literature) to highlight the age ranges which have a higher prevalence of stunting. The groups are 16-12, 13-18, 19-24, 25-36 and 37-59. I added age in the model as shown in R code below
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