The CALIS Procedure

SIMTESTS Statement

  • SIMTESTS | SIMTEST sim-test <sim-test …>;

where sim-test represents one of the following: $\bullet $ test-name = [ functions ] $\bullet $ test-name = { functions } and functions are either parameters in the model or parametric functions computed in the SAS programming statements .

When the estimates in a model are asymptotically multivariate-normal, continuous and differentiable functions of the estimates are also multivariate-normally distributed. In the SIMTESTS statement, you can test these parametric functions simultaneously. The null hypothesis for the simultaneous tests is assumed to have the following form:

$H_0$ : $h_1( \theta ) = 0$, $h_2( \theta ) = 0$, …

where $\theta $ is the set of model parameters (independent or dependent) in the analysis and each $h_ i()$ is a continuous and differentiable function of the model parameters.

To test parametric functions simultaneously in the SIMTESTS statement, you first assign a name for the simultaneously test in test-name. Then you put the parametric functions for the simultaneous test inside a pair of parentheses: either the '{' and '}' pair, or the '[' and ']' pair. For example, if $\theta _1$, $\theta _2$, $\theta _3$, and $\theta _4$ are parameters in the model and you want to test the equality of $\theta _1$ and $\theta _2$ and the equality of $\theta _3$ and $\theta _4$ simultaneously, you can use the following statements: 

simtests
   Equality_test = [t1_t2_diff t3_t4_diff];
t1_t2_diff   = theta1 - theta2;
t3_t4_diff   = theta3 - theta4;

In the SIMTESTS statement, you test two functions t1_t2_diff and t3_t4_diff simultaneously in the test named Equality_test. The two parametric functions t1_t2_diff and t3_t4_diff are computed in the SAS programming statements as differences of some parameters in the model.

See also the TESTFUNC statement for testing parametric functions individually.