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Stepwise regression: Setting up the analysis

Stepwise regression: Setting up the analysis - SPSS Tutorial

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Stepwise regression: Setting up the analysis

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- [Instructor] Okay, we're gonna go ahead and precede with our Step Wise regression. I'm in the same file as the last video, my train test variable which I have retained, and I went ahead and saved this. If it is not open, you can go ahead and retrieve it from exercises auto imports with train test. Let's precede. Let's go ahead and run the Step Wise. I'm gonna go up to analyze, regression, linear. It's important that you embrace the spirit of Step Wise. If you're doing thesis work, like a master's thesis or a PhD thesis, this technique is not gonna make a bit of sense because you're not gonna be proving or disproving hypothesis. It's inherently exploratory. There's a great white paper and even a video on the web that you might want to seek out called To Explain Or To Predict. The academic who has written this and she's done a wonderful job with it, is named Galit Shmueli. I encourage you to seek that out. What we're gonna do, in the spirit of an exploratory technique, is we're gonna…

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