Using stepwise regression to address multicollinearity is not appropriate
Wenfeng Xi, Qing-Wei Jiang, Aiming Yang
Abstract
Department of Gastroenterology, State Key Laboratory of Complex Severe and Rare Diseases, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing 100730, China Type of the work: Correspondence Sponsorships or competing interests that may be relevant to content are disclosed at the end of this article Published online ■ ■ *Corresponding author. Address: Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, China. E-mail address: [email protected] (A. M. Yang). This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4.0, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work, even for commercial purposes, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/