mantel {alr4}

Mantel's artifical data for stepwise regression

Description

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

Format

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

Y

the response

X1

predictor 1

X2

predictor 2

X3

predictor 3

Source

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

References

Weisberg, S. (2014). Applied Linear Regression, 4th edition. Hoboken NJ: Wiley.

Examples

head(mantel)