Determination of the best significance level in forward stepwise logistic regression

Communications in Statistics Part B: Simulation and Computation

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 559-575

  Lee, Kang In ^a   Koval, John J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Monte Carlo simulation; Multivariate binary distribution; Multivariate normal distribution; Prediction

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; LOGIC PROGRAMMING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PERFORMANCE; STATISTICAL TESTS;

EFRON ESTIMATED TRUE ERROR RATE OF PREDICTION; FORWARD STEPWISE LOGISTIC REGRESSION; MULTIVARIATE BINARY DISTRIBUTION; STOPPING CRITERION;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031338759     PISSN: 03610918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610919708813397     Document Type: Article

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