you can also look at

http://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.linear_model.Lars.html#sklearn.linear_model.Lars

which, as stepwise regression, cannot discard features as soon as they
are selected.

Alex

On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 12:32 AM, Olivier Grisel
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 2012/7/28 Zach Bastick <[email protected]>:
>> The docs do not indicate whether there is anyway to do a stepwise
>> regression in scikit-learn or in Python.
>> All there seems to be is linear_model.LinearRegression().
>>
>> This function outputs resulting x-values/beta-values/coefficents that
>> are not significant. In statistical data packages, like SPSS,
>> non-significant beta-values are automatically eliminated from the
>> regression equation... not here.
>>
>> Am I missing something? How does one do a step-wise regression, so that
>> insignificant coefficents are not added to the equation?
>
> LinearRegression does not do any feature selection by default but you
> can do univariate feature selection upstream and then do
> LinearRegression only on the informative features or alternatively use
> a L1 penalized regression (e.g. Lasso or LassoLARS).
>
> http://scikit-learn.org/dev/modules/feature_selection.html
>
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