[R] overall comparison of an ordered categorical in a multiple regression

[Gavin Simpson]

On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 14:25 +0000, Angelo Passalacqua wrote:
> I entered the following:
> 
> formula<-nst~age+soc+inc+reg+imp
> 
> pnstlm<-lm(formula,nst)
> 
> summary(pnstlm)
> 
> imp and soc are ordered categorical variables but the summary does not give
> an output of the overall p-values, just individual comparisons.  I can't
> find help for this in the manual.  Is there a command or option change in
> the summary to find out the overall p-value?

I think you want:

anova(pnstlm)

to get single measures for imp and soc

G

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