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RE: Selection of variables in Discr. Analysis

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Subject: RE: Selection of variables in Discr. Analysis
From: "Thomas Stockton" <stockton@neptuneandco.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 14:07:20 -0700
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Doesn't the mda library do this? Disr. Analysis using MARS.

Tom
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>Ripley
>Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 11:25 AM
>To: Francois Collin
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>Subject: Re: [S] Selection of variables in Discr. Analysis
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>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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