The only question I dare answer here is the sas question: "which procedure I can use for stepwise variable selection like in Proc Reg", followed by a hopeful reference to PROC QLIM. QLIM does not appear to offer a stepwise option. I guess you could construct a set of TEST statements (with sets of coefficients set to zero), and then you can consider the contributions of each independent variable (or sets thereof).
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