The text generally recommended against formal procedures for finding an optimal regression procedure because
A) those procedures don't work.
B) those procedures pay too much attention to chance differences.
C) the statistical software won't handle those procedures.
D) all of the above

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The text suggests that formal procedures for finding an optimal regression procedure may pay too much attention to chance differences and result in overfitting the model to the specific sample data, rather than selecting a more generalizable model. It does not necessarily state that those procedures never work or that statistical software cannot handle them.

The Text Generally Recommended Against Formal Procedures for Finding an Optimal