[R] No P.values in polr summary

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 18/10/2013 15:01, Vincent Guyader wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> If I compute a "Ordered Logistic or Probit Regression" with the polr
> function from MASS package. the summary give me : coefficients, Standard
> error and Tvalue.. but  not directly the p.value.
>
>
> I can compute "manualy" the Pvalue, but Is there a way to directly obtain
> the pa.value, and I wonder why the p.valeu is not directly calculated, is
> there a reason?

How are you going to calculate the P values?  Have you read the book for 
which this is support software?: it explains why such Wald tests are 
inappropriate and that the asymptotic theory can be wildly misleading.

>
> exemple :
>
> house.plr <- polr(Sat ~ Infl + Type + Cont, weights = Freq, data = housing)
> house.plr
> summary(house.plr, digits = 3)
>
>
>
>
> Regards
>
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PLEASE do.

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