What's "m1"? Is it a fit to a ~1? I've used my own modification of stepAIC many times preceeded by "m1 <- lm(y~1, data=...)", and it has worked fine for me.

hth. spencer graves

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I'm attempting to select a model using stepAIC.  I want to use a forward
selection procedure.  I have specified a "scope" option, but must not be
understanding how this works.  My results indicate that the procedure begins
and ends with the "full" model (i.e., all 17 independent variables)...not
what I expected.  Could someone please point out what I'm not understanding?
My code is below.



Thanks.



Marc




m1.stepFwd <- stepAIC(m1, direction="forward",


+ scope=list(upper=~age.refc.fo + dusz.cat.fo +

+ ed.du.f + emp.ref.f + geodist3.f + has.fone.f +

+ healthdu.f + help.du.f + inc.ref.f + maj.act.f +

+ marryref.f + msa.stat.f + regionrf.f + r.e.ref.f +

+ sex.ref.f + type.psu.f + urb.stat.f, lower=~1))

Start: AIC= 4752.19

response ~ age.refc.fo + dusz.cat.fo + ed.du.f + emp.ref.f +

geodist3.f + has.fone.f + healthdu.f + help.du.f + inc.ref.f +

maj.act.f + marryref.f + msa.stat.f + regionrf.f + r.e.ref.f +

sex.ref.f + type.psu.f + urb.stat.f





m1.stepFwd$anova


Stepwise Model Path

Analysis of Deviance Table



Initial Model:

response ~ age.refc.fo + dusz.cat.fo + ed.du.f + emp.ref.f +

geodist3.f + has.fone.f + healthdu.f + help.du.f + inc.ref.f +

maj.act.f + marryref.f + msa.stat.f + regionrf.f + r.e.ref.f +

sex.ref.f + type.psu.f + urb.stat.f



Final Model:

response ~ age.refc.fo + dusz.cat.fo + ed.du.f + emp.ref.f +

geodist3.f + has.fone.f + healthdu.f + help.du.f + inc.ref.f +

maj.act.f + marryref.f + msa.stat.f + regionrf.f + r.e.ref.f +

sex.ref.f + type.psu.f + urb.stat.f





Step Df Deviance Resid. Df Resid. Dev AIC

1 NA NA 5311 4660.192 4752.192








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