Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

This paper uses the unconditional mean square error of prediction as a criterion for comparing stopping rules used with the forward "stepwise" selection procedure in ...

Although quantitative researchers in political science and sociology have used stepwise regression to select independent variables and to rank them in terms of their impact on a dependent variable, ...