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We introduce a fast stepwise regression method, called the orthogonal greedy algorithm (OGA), that selects input variables to enter a p-dimensional linear regression model (with p ≫ n, the sample size ...

Although quantitative researchers in political science and sociology have used stepwise regression to select independent variables and to rank them in terms of their impact on a dependent variable, ...

Many complex disease traits are observed to be associated with single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) interactions. In testing small-scale SNP–SNP interactions, variable selection procedures in logistic ...

Simply collecting data is not enough. You can fill spreadsheets with data, but it's useless if you can't act on it. Regression is one of the most powerful statistical tools for finding relationships ...