irony in ?step

["Jean V Adams" <jvadams@usgs.gov>]

I was just perusing the help file for the step() function.  The last
sentence of the DETAILS section reads:
      Note: this function should not be used with logistic regression.

But, the sample code provided in the EXAMPLES section uses
      glm.object <- glm(Kyphosis ~ Age + Start + Number, family = binomial,
data = kyphosis)
      step(glm.object)
which looks an awful lot like using the step function with logistic
regression to me.

Isn't that ironic?

JVA

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