[R] stepwise in svyglm???

Frank Harrell f.harrell at vanderbilt.edu
Wed Jul 25 18:26:23 CEST 2012


None, except when the bootstrap is used correctly to fully document how well
or poorly the modeling strategy worked and one is not interested in doing
better or hasn't the time to do so.

Cheers,
Frank

Bert Gunter wrote
> 
> ... which begs the question: In what context is it valid?  ;-)
> 
> -- Bert
> 
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Frank Harrell <f.harrell@> wrote:
>> Stepwise variable selection is invalid in this context.
>> Frank
>>
>> Diana Marcela Martinez Ruiz wrote
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>>  I want to know how to perform stepwise elimination of variables to
>>> svyglm
>>>
>>>  thanks
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