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Exercise

Eliminating predictors

You do not want to exclude the lagged coupon effect yet. The company needs a really sound model to improve it's future marketing decisions and to effectively run their campaign. To be 100% sure, you perform backward selection of predictors by using the function stepAIC(), loaded from the add-on package MASS.

The stepAIC() function builds all possible combinations of predictors and determines which has the lowest AIC. The argument direction = "backward" starts the selection process with the extended.model and sequentially removes terms in an effort to lower the AIC. The argument trace = FALSE suppresses information to be printed during the running of the selection process. The final model, resulting in the minimum AIC value, is summarized by the function summary().

Instructions

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  • Load the add-on package MASS by using the function library().
  • Perform backward elimination of predictors on the extended.model object by using the function stepAIC(). Assign the result to an object named final.model.
  • Summarize the final.model object by using the function summary().