[R] GLM

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

R does not contain anything equivalent to step.glm: we do not copy 
incorrect functions!

There is step() in base R and stepAIC() in package MASS, both of which do 
what step.glm in S claims to do (but does not).

[step.glm has an incorrect definition of AIC, and uses Wald tests to 
approximate likelihood ratio tests, despite the Hauck-Donner effect. It 
can give seriously misleading results: this was discovered in a real 
application about 8 years ago, when I wrote stepAIC.]

On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, laurans wrote:

> I would to know the equivalent of the function step.glm for R.
> Thank you

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