StepReg

1.6.6

Stepwise Regression Analysis

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10.8Kdownloads / year

43.6%test coverage

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Overview

About

Maintained by Junhui LiFirst published 2017-11-0330 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Stepwise regression is a statistical technique used for model selection. This package streamlines stepwise regression analysis by supporting multiple regression types(linear, Cox, logistic, Poisson, Gamma, and negative binomial), incorporating popular selection strategies(forward, backward, bidirectional, and subset), and offering essential metrics. It enables users to apply multiple selection strategies and metrics in a single function call, visualize variable selection processes, and export results in various formats. StepReg offers a data-splitting option to address potential issues with invalid statistical inference and a randomized forward selection option to avoid overfitting. We validated StepReg's accuracy using public datasets within the SAS software environment. For an interactive web interface, users can install the companion 'StepRegShiny' package.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("StepReg", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("JunhuiLi1017/StepReg")

Development version from JunhuiLi1017/StepReg. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-stepreg

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-StepReg

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

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Repository

GitHub ↗ junhuili1017/stepreg

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (7)

ggplot2 ggrepelMASSsurvivalflextable pROC survAUC

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Suggests (6)

knitr testthat BiocStyle kableExtra cowplot rmarkdown

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Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

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JM4QTN StepRegShiny

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (9)

Maintainer (1)

Junhui Li

Maintainer

Authors (5)

Kai Hu

Author · added in 1.5.0

Lihua Julie Zhu

Author · added in 1.5.0

Junhui Li

Author

Wenxin Liu

Author

Xiaohuan Lu

Author · added in 1.2.1

Contributors (3)

Michael A Lodato

Contributor · added in 1.5.3

Cesar Bautista Sotelo

Contributor · added in 1.5.0

Sushmita N Nayak

Contributor · added in 1.5.3

Listed in earlier versions (4)

Kun Cheng

no longer listed · 1.0.0 to 1.5.8

Robert H Brown

no longer listed · 1.5.0 to 1.5.7

Michael Lodato

no longer listed · 1.5.0 to 1.5.2

Sushmita Nayak

no longer listed · 1.5.0 to 1.5.2

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Package metadata

First published: 2017-11-03
Total releases: 30 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 3.4 MB
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