Question

9.11 Movie lovers, Part I suppose A SOCIAL scientist is interested in studying what makes audience love or hate a movie. She collects a random sample of movies (genre, length, cast, director, budget, etc.) as well as a measure of the success of the movie (score on a film review aggregator website). If as part of her research she is interested in finding out which variables are significant predictors of movie succes, what type of model selection method should she use?

Answer 1

We should use step-wise regression method (which is a model selection method) to determine which predictors are significant in the model to predict movie success.