Hello, all I have a lot of independents and one dependent, finally, I want to build one model using them, and predict the new samples value, that is regression. before it, I must remove some independents according to some criterion: 1. constant values independent. 2. variant near zero. 3. percentage of zero values > what?? 4. have other critorion? for 3. and 4. 3. I have no idea, generally sepeaking, the corresponding independent with what is percentage of zero values should be removed (20% or 50% or others, have paper support?). 4. statistical, have any critorions that are used to removed independent? give me a hand. Actually, my questions is about feature selections, it is so complex, I hope any friends can give me a guidance. how can I leave those independent which is good to correlate to dependent.(i.e. high correlation coefficent R and small predictive error etc.). And removel "bad" independents. thank you! -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/what-is-criterion-of-removing-independence-tp975987p975987.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.