How to do stepwise regression in R?


You don’t.

Seriously. You shouldn’t do it. It’s a popular method in social science research, but most statisticians will advise you against it. Selecting or removing predictors based on significance will lead to inflated Type 1 errors, introduces undesired bias and will not provide you with informative insights. Others have written more elaborately about this, so have a look at some of these resources:

The comments also have some additional reading material to further convince you: Do not use stepwise regression.


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