From the course: Designing Big Data Healthcare Studies, Part Two

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Selective stepwise modeling: Breaking the working model

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Selective stepwise modeling: Breaking the working model

- [Teacher] Welcome to this section where we do round two of SS modeling and have a little fun breaking our working model. But for now, let's get down to business. In round two, you start with the working model you developed in round one where you tried all the covariates and only kept the ones that were significant, or almost significant in the model, along with the exposure variable. So basically, your working model has a bunch of covariates in it and most, if not all of them, are statistically significant. Remember table one, your descriptive table? You listed all of your potential covariates in that. So I use table one as a guide as to what order to go in, when putting covariates in the model, both in round one and round two. So go pick out the first discarded variable that's not in your working model. Go ahead and add that one to the model and run it, then look at it and update your metadata. And under the common column, state your verdict. Keep it, or toss it. Should it stay, or…

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