Suppose that a multiple linear regression model was fit to data and that the following output resulted:  Coefficients: (Intercept) age height forearm Estimate 10.14882  0.06045 -0.02108 -0.06479 Std. Error 4.49245 0.06838 0.06350 0.06847 t value  2.259 0.884 -0.332 -0.946 Pr(>|t|) 0.0264 0.3792 0.7408 0.3467 True or False? If we were to perform a backwards selection process on this data set, the first to be removed is forearm since it has the smallest p-value.  True False

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Suppose that a multiple linear regression model was fit to data and that the following output resulted: 

Coefficients:

(Intercept)
age
height
forearm
Estimate
10.14882
 0.06045
-0.02108
-0.06479
Std. Error
4.49245
0.06838
0.06350
0.06847
t value
 2.259
0.884
-0.332
-0.946
Pr(>|t|)
0.0264
0.3792
0.7408
0.3467

True or False? If we were to perform a backwards selection process on this data set, the first to be removed is forearm since it has the smallest p-value. 

True

False

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