Stepwise regression involves selection of independent variables to use in a model based on an iterative process of adding or removing variables.

1. The biases and shortcomings of stepwise multiple regression are well established within the statistical literature. However, an examination of papers published in 2004 by three leading ecological ...

Although quantitative researchers in political science and sociology have used stepwise regression to select independent variables and to rank them in terms of their impact on a dependent variable, ...