[R] Subject: glm and stepAIC selects too many effects

Bert Gunter bgunter.4567 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 6 18:24:28 CEST 2017


See package "glmnet".

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Bert Gunter

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On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 8:10 AM, Ravi Varadhan <ravi.varadhan at jhu.edu> wrote:
> More principled would be to use a lasso-type approach, which combines selection and estimation in one fell swoop!
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> Ravi
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> If AIC is giving you a model that is too large, then use BIC (log(n) as the penalty for adding a term in the model).  This will yield a more parsimonious model.  Now, if you ask me which is the better option, I have to refer you to the huge literature on model selection.
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> Ravi
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