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The LOGISTIC Procedure

Testing Linear Hypotheses about the Regression Coefficients

Linear hypotheses for are expressed in matrix form as

     

where is a matrix of coefficients for the linear hypotheses, and is a vector of constants. The vector of regression coefficients includes slope parameters as well as intercept parameters. The Wald chi-square statistic for testing is computed as

     

where is the estimated covariance matrix. Under , has an asymptotic chi-square distribution with degrees of freedom, where is the rank of .

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