The TEST statement provides a means of obtaining a test for the canonical linear hypothesis concerning the parameters of the tested effects:

where is the total number of parameters of the tested effects.

You can request Wald tests with the WALD option and likelihood ratio tests with the LR option. By default, only Wald tests are provided. See the section Details: QUANTREG Procedure for more information about these tests.

The optional label, which must be a valid SAS name, is used to label output from the corresponding TEST statement.