An overview of the variables selection methods for the minimum sum of absolute errors regression

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 13, 2003, Pages 2101-2111

  André, Carmen D S ^a   Narula, Subhash C ^b   Elian, Silvia N ^a   Tavares, Rodrigo A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Banco Itau SA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Backward elimination; Coefficient of determination; Forward selection; Implicit enumeration; Predictive sum of absolute errors; Stepwise procedure

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL ERROR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ALGORITHMS; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; MICE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0038726244     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1437     Document Type: Review

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