I blogged with #rstats simulated data on the evils of stepwise variable selection regression. False positives go up, inference after the fitting is borked, estimates are biased away from zero. Yet still we see it all the time. https://freerangestats.info/blog/2024/09/14/stepwise
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Peter Ellis
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Director, Statistics for Development Division, at the Pacific Community. Tweets only represent my views, and are most likely to be about data and #rstats, maybe with bits of history, meta science and philosophy thrown in.
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