Before you treat your discrete variables as categorical, consider whether you should at least evaluate the linear component by treating it as continuous. For variables with partial orderings, or with both linear and nonlinear components, consider combining continuous and categorical variables together.
Believe it or not, your credit score will be higher if you have 6-10 credit accounts than if you have just one or two. Here are action items to consider to improve this section of your credit report: 1  Pay on time. 2  Credit cards. 3  Utility bills. 4  Library dues.
The solution to improve your credit score: Gather up all those credit cards on which you have small balances and pay them off, Ulzheimer says. Then select one or two go-to cards that you can use for everything. That way, you're not polluting your credit report with a lot of balances, he says.he optimum: 30 percent or lower. To boost your score, pay down your balances, and keep those balances low, says Pamela Banks, senior policy counsel for Consumers Union. What you might not know: Even if you pay balances in full every month, you still could have a higher utilization ratio than you'd expect.