[Rd] New code in R-devel: Rao score test for glm.

[Peter Ehlers]

On 2011-05-11 07:30, peter dalgaard wrote:
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> On May 11, 2011, at 15:10 , Brett Presnell wrote:
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>> Thanks for doing this Peter.  I'll have to install the development
>> version to try this out.
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>> One suggestion though.  I'm pretty confident that plain old "score test"
>> is a more common terminology than anything involving Rao's name
>> (econometricians even call it the Lagrange multiplier test).  In light
>> of this, I think that it would be much better to use test = "score"
>> rather than test = "Rao".
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> It's not like that didn't cross my mind, in fact I started out that way, but...
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> - A column labeled "score" just looks odd, whereas there is some precedence for labeling tests according to authors (e.g. Pillai).
> - CR Rao is still around, now 90 years of age, and having been taught from "Linear Statistical Inference with Applications", I thought paying a little homage would be appropriate
> - At least the curator calls it "Rao score test": http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Rao_score_test
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Yes, thanks, Peter, for coding this test.
As to the name, my vote is for "Rao".

Peter Ehlers

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>> --
>> Brett Presnell
>> Department of Statistics
>> University of Florida
>> http://www.stat.ufl.edu/~presnell/
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>>    -- Richard Stallman
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