How do you decide which variables are the most important in a regression.
Anonymous
There are many ways to do this. Let's say we have n features. An expensive method would be to fit regressions with n times such that the ith model leaves out the ith feature. Then, pick the k features associated to the k worst models when compared to a model using all features. Another way is to use PCA and find features with largest variance, as these almost always contain the most information.
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