mantel                 package:alr3                 R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     An artificial data set suggested by N. Mantel to illustrate
     stepwise regression methods.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     data(mantel)

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

     A data frame with 5 observations on the following 4 variables.

     _Y the response

     _X_1 predictor 1

     _X_2 predictor 2

     _X_3 predictor 3

_S_o_u_r_c_e:

     Mantel, N. (1970). Why stepdown procedures in variable selection? 
     _Technometrics_, 12, 621-625.

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     Weisberg, S. (2005). _Applied Linear Regression_, 3rd edition. New
     York: Wiley, Problem 10.2.

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

     data(mantel)

