From: Determining relative importance of variables in developing and validating predictive models
Variables | Forward selection | Backward selection | Stepwise selection | |||
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 | s | p-value | s | p-value | s | p-value |
Age | 1.000 | 0.0003 | 0.999 | 0.0002 | 0.998 | 0.0003 |
Baseline WBC | 0.991 | 0.0067 | 0.957 | 0.0028 | 0.951 | 0.0027 |
Splenomegay | 0.767 | 0.0424 | 0.600 | 0.0071 | 0.610 | 0.0071 |
T-cell immunophenotype | 0.748 | 0.0408 | 0.593 | 0.0043 | 0.588 | 0.0042 |
Sex | 0.719 | 0.0493 | 0.465 | 0.0141 | 0.455 | 0.0137 |
Mediastinal mass | 0.648 | 0.0576 | 0.450 | 0.0056 | 0.451 | 0.0055 |
Hepatomegaly | 0.493 | 0.0621 | 0.307 | 0.0111 | 0.292 | 0.0108 |