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...tand the alternative methods that are available for selecting variables in a regression without simply imposing my own bias (having "good judgement"). The methods implimented in leaps and step and stepAIC seem to fall into the general class of stepwise procedures. But these are commonly condemmed for inducing overfitting. In Hastie, Tibshirani and Friedman "The Elements of Statistical Learning" chapter 3, they describe a number of procedures that seem better. The use of cross-validation in the training stage presumably helps guard against overfitting. They seem particularly...

...vary. Red Hat is a tale of two companies, cut-throat business combined with GPL-analness (like Stallman on one side, Microsoft on the other - an unique balace). And Caldera-SCO post-May 2003 is no longer a software company, and as of their lobbying of Congress as of January 2004, they are basically condeming the right to digital assembly. There is no such thing as good/bad. Companies have their reasons for doing things. But what I can't stand is people like yourself holding different companies to different standards. Trust nothing but actual community donations - because everything else can cha...

OK, I wanted to replace the 500G disks in a Dell T20 server with new 2TB disks. The machine has 4 SATA ports, one used for the optical disk and three for the hard drives. It is set up with /dev/sda and /dev/sdb with each three partitions: 1 -- VFAT (for EFI) 2 -- ext4 (for /boot) 3 -- LVM /dev/sda2 and /dev/sdb2 are a mirror raid (/dev/md0) /dev/sda3 and /dev/sdb3 are a mirror raid