Torturing data for the sake of generality: How valid are our regression models?

Ecoscience

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 501-510

  Olden, J D ^a   Jackson, D A ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Bootstrap; Cross validation; Explanatory; Jackknife; Monte Carlo simulation; Multiple regression analysis; Predictive power; Variable selection

Indexed keywords

MODEL VALIDATION; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034489288     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11956860.2000.11682622     Document Type: Article

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