Richard Williams replied to Maarten Buis:
> I think stepwise can be useful as a diagnostic device, e.g. does mindless
> empiricism produce more or less the same model that your great theory does?
> If not, you might want to consider whether there is some other great theory
> you have overlooked. Also, I think there are situations where stepwise,
> while Satanic, is less Satanic than some of the alternatives. The present
> example doesn't seem to fall into either of these categories.
"Satanic Regression Models": that sounds like just the sort of niche
statistics book Springer-Verlag would publish.
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