Comparison of stopping rules in forward “stepwise” regression

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 72, Issue 357, 1977, Pages 46-53

  Bendel, Robert B ^a   Afifi, A A ^b  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Forward selection; Simulated correlation matrices; Stepwise regression; Stopping rules

Indexed keywords

EID: 84950620386     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1977.10479905     Document Type: Article

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