Learn what flow and stock variables mean in simple terms. Understand how income, wealth, GDP, and debt connect through time and why this matters in economics and everyday life.

Abstract: Variable selection is the problem of choosing the subset of explanatory variables for a regression or classification model such that the resulting model is best according to some criterion.

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