This document discusses diagnostic techniques for building regression models, focusing on added-variable plots to assess the marginal importance of predictor variables and the influence of outliers on model fit. It outlines how to identify outlying observations using residuals and hat matrix analysis, as well as measures of influence like Cook's distance and DFBETAS. Additionally, it addresses issues of multicollinearity through informal diagnostics and the use of variance inflation factors to evaluate the impact of correlated predictor variables.