Bad advice in regression tutorial: Using stepwise to fix collinearity problems

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Bad advice in regression tutorial: Using stepwise to fix collinearity problems

Bruce Weaver
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Some folks on this list may be interested in the following post to comp.soft-sys.stat.spss.  It concerns an SPSS tutorial on multiple (linear) regression that advises one to use stepwise selection to fix collinearity problems.

  http://groups.google.com/group/comp.soft-sys.stat.spss/browse_frm/thread/f47a0dc476b1aeb7#

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