stepfor {maSigPro} | R Documentation

## Fitting a linear model by forward-stepwise regression

### Description

`stepfor` fits a linear regression model applying forward-stepwise strategy.

### Usage

    stepfor(y = y, d = d, alfa = 0.05, family = gaussian(), epsilon=0.00001  )

### Arguments

`y` | dependent variable
`d` | data frame containing by columns the set of variables that could be in the selected model
`alfa` | significance level to decide if a variable stays or not in the model
`family` | the distribution function to be used in the glm model
`epsilon` | argument to pass to `glm.control`, convergence tolerance in the iterative process to estimate de glm model

### Details

The strategy begins analysing all the possible models with only one of the variables included in `d`. The most statistically significant variable (with the lowest p-value) is included in the model and then it is considered to introduce in the model another variable analysing all the possible models with two variables (the selected variable in the previous step plus a new variable). Again the most statistically significant variable (with lowest p-value) is included in the model. The process is repeated till there are no more statistically significant variables to include.

### Value

`stepfor` returns an object of the class `lm`, where the model uses `y` as dependent variable and all the selected variables from `d` as independent variables.

The function `summary` are used to obtain a summary and analysis of variance table of the results. The generic accessor functions `coefficients`, `effects`, `fitted.values` and `residuals` extract various useful features of the value returned by `lm`.

### Author(s)

Ana Conesa, aconesa@cipf.es; Maria Jose Nueda, mj.nueda@ua.es

### References

Conesa, A., Nueda M.J., Alberto Ferrer, A., Talon, T. 2005. maSigPro: a Method to Identify Significant Differential Expression Profiles in Time-Course Microarray Experiments.

### See Also

`lm`, `step`, `stepback`, `two.ways.stepback`, `two.ways.stepfor`

### Examples

    ## create design matrix
    Time <- rep(c(rep(c(1:3), each = 3)), 4)
    Replicates <- rep(c(1:12), each = 3)
    Control <- c(rep(1, 9), rep(0, 27))
    Treat1 <- c(rep(0, 9), rep(1, 9), rep(0, 18))
    Treat2 <- c(rep(0, 18), rep(1, 9), rep(0,9))
    Treat3 <- c(rep(0, 27), rep(1, 9))
    edesign <- cbind(Time, Replicates, Control, Treat1, Treat2, Treat3)
    rownames(edesign) <- paste("Array", c(1:36), sep = "")
    dise <- make.design.matrix(edesign)
    dis <- as.data.frame(dise$dis)

    ## expression vector
    y <- c(0.082, 0.021, 0.010, 0.113, 0.013, 0.077, 0.068, 0.042, -0.056, -0.232, -0.014, -0.040,
    -0.055, 0.150, -0.027, 0.064, -0.108, -0.220, 0.275, -0.130, 0.130, 1.018, 1.005, 0.931,
     -1.009, -1.101, -1.014, -0.045, -0.110, -0.128, -0.643, -0.785, -1.077, -1.187, -1.249, -1.463)

    s.fit <- stepfor(y = y, d = dis)
    summary(s.fit)

[Package maSigPro version 1.64.0 Index]