[R] can I do this with R?

[Smita Pakhale]

Hi Maria,

But why do you want to use forwards or backwards
methods? These all are 'backward' methods of modeling.
Try using AIC or BIC. BIC is much better than AIC.
And, you do not have to believe me or any one else on
this. 

Just make a small data set with a few variables with
known relationship amongst them. With this simulated
data set, use all your modeling methods: backwards,
forwards, AIC, BIC etc and then see which one gives
you a answer closest to the truth. The beauty of using
a simulated dataset is that, you 'know' the truth, as
you are the 'creater' of it!

smita

--- Charilaos Skiadas <cskiadas at gmail.com> wrote:

> A google search for "logistic regression with
> stepwise forward in r"  
> returns the following post:
> 
>
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2003-December/043645.html
> 
> Haris Skiadas
> Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
> Hanover College
> 
> On May 28, 2008, at 7:01 AM, Maria wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > I am just about to install R and was wondering
> about a few things.
> >
> > I have only worked in Matlab because I wanted to
> do a logistic  
> > regression. However Matlab does not do logistic
> regression with  
> > stepwiseforward method. Therefore I thought about
> testing R. So my  
> > question is
> > can I do logistic regression with stepwise forward
> in R?
> >
> > Thanks /M
> 
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