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Hi, a colleague ran a stepwise discriminant analysis twice in a row and got different results, suggesting some "sochasticity" in the algorithms involved. I looked at her data and found that there was a lot of collinearity, so that I reckoned that maybe "stepclass" (klaR) cannot find a clear winner when trying to include a new variable and makes a random choice. Is that true? another possibility is t...