[R] model selection using logistf package

Frank Harrell f.harrell at vanderbilt.edu
Tue Sep 27 14:33:05 CEST 2011


Stepwise variable selection without heavy penalization is invalid.
Frank

mael wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm wondering how to select the "best" model when using logistf? AIC does
> not work neither does anova. I tried fitting a glm model but got the
> separation warning message so I tried using the logistf package but as I
> stepwise simplify the model I don't know if the simplification is
> motivated or not... Can anyone explain to me how I should approach this
> problem? I have data with y=0 and 1 and three x variables for 328
> observations.
> 
> Thanks!
> 


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Frank Harrell
Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University
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