Re: [R] Stepwise in lme

2011-12-22 Thread Frank Harrell
Stepwise regression without proper penalization is invalid. Frank Pablo wrote > > I'm manually doing a form of stepwise regression in a mixed model but with > many variables, it is time consuming. I thought I'd try to use an > automated approach. stepAIC gave me false convergence when I used it

Re: [R] Stepwise in lme

2011-12-22 Thread Ben Bolker
Pablo gmail.com> writes: > > I'm manually doing a form of stepwise regression in a mixed model but with > many variables, it is time consuming. I thought I'd try to use an automated > approach. stepAIC gave me false convergence when I used it with my model, > so I thought it can't be hard to s

[R] Stepwise in lme

2011-12-22 Thread Pablo
I'm manually doing a form of stepwise regression in a mixed model but with many variables, it is time consuming. I thought I'd try to use an automated approach. stepAIC gave me false convergence when I used it with my model, so I thought it can't be hard to set up a basic program to do it based o