Re: st: logistic and logit and test

[David Airey <david.airey@vanderbilt.edu>]

> Incidentally, the -test- command is not considered the optimal way to 
> test hypotheses in logistic regression. (If you are only testing 
> whether a single parameter = 0, it also doesn't accomplish much, 
> because the z value for the coefficient gives you the same info.) The 
> -lrtest- command (which also requires the use of the -estimates store- 
> command) is considered better. pp. 3 and 4 of the following handout 
> give examples:
Thanks! Your PDFs are useful. I hope they stay online.

This preference of LR compared to Wald tests is related to sample size? 
Or other characteristics of the data? I had a large sample size so I 
assumed the Wald tests were OK, but I'll check via LR tests.

-Dave

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