Dear List: I am trying to fit a model y~(x1,x2,...,xn) using ACE, and would like to know the relative importance of these variables with respect to the overall goodness of fit. One approach would be to run ACE multiple times, dropping one variable at a time, to get the loss in R^2 corresponding to each of the variables, and ranking them accordingly. Is there a more elegant solution to this problem? Thanks. -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._