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Re:Coffee Meets Bagel Meets Me – Statistical analysis of onl... by carbocation on Thursday January 22, 2015 @07:50PM (#8932782)
> I hope the variable names are self-explanatory. Any variable with a star next to it is statistically significant, which basically means it can be used to predict scores/ratings.

For a variety of reasons (e.g., multi-collinearity), following this procedure would potentially have you tossing the most important contributors to your model. I would use a different mechanism to evaluate the contributors to your model.

A more classical way to tell if something contributes to your model is by evaluating a model with that value compared with the model without it. How do the AIC (or BIC, or LR, or other metric that you like) of the N plausible models compare?

As an aside, the article's approach to evaluating the "significance" of predictors doesn't account for multiple testing. You have ~10 variables in your model, and your best P value is 0.01, which is essentially 0.1 after accounting for multiple testing (Bonferroni), which is not significant classically.

Re:Coffee Meets Bagel Meets Me – Statistical analysis of onl... by minimaxir on Thursday January 22, 2015 @09:03PM (#8933046)
Two additional notes:

1) R includes the F-test output that accounts for multiple variables in the regression: in this case, P = 0.089, which is a problem.

2) For variable/model selection, R's step() function is easy to use and tests using AIC too: https://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/stats/html/ste...