LARGE SAMPLE TESTS FOR COMPARING REGRESSION COEFFICIENTS IN MODELS WITH NORMALLY DISTRIBUTED VARIABLES

ETS Research Report Series

Volumn 2003, Issue 2, 2003, Pages i-21

  von Davier, Alina A ^a  

^a EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

efficient score test; likelihood ratio test; multivariate normal regressors; nonlinear hypothesis; wald test

Indexed keywords

EID: 85164518867     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23308516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.2333-8504.2003.tb01911.x     Document Type: Article

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