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Re: Selection of variables in Discr. Analysis

To: Francois Collin <fcollin@genelogic.com>
Subject: Re: Selection of variables in Discr. Analysis
From: Prof Brian D Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 18:24:38 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
Cc: s-news <s-news@wubios.wustl.edu>
In-reply-to: <3A254557.78DDBD6E@genelogic.com>
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Francois  Collin wrote:

> Hello:
> I am running S-plus on Windows NT.
> I am working on a classification problem with many feature variables.
> Are there functions which implement some of the usual variable selection
> procedures?
> Thanks in advance for pointers.

Not that I know of, and with good reason.  They are very dependent on
unrealistic assumptions.  You would do better to use stepAIC on logistic
regression (glm or multinom).

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