Stepwise regression and stepwise discriminant analysis need not apply here: a guidelines editorial.

Three problems associated with the application of stepwise methods, which are often used in psychological and educational research to pick useful subsets of variables and to evaluate the order of importance of variables, are presented. First, commonly used statistical packages incorrectly compute t...

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Publicado en:Educational & Psychological Measurement Vol. 55; pp. 525 - 535
Autor principal: Thompson, Bruce
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Sage Publications Inc. August 1995
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