st: RE: Test, constraint dropped

["Maarten Buis" <M.Buis@fsw.vu.nl>]

--- Knag Anne-Christine wrote:
> I did a test on the independent variables in a mvreg. After the 28
> comparisons it came up with Constraint 3 dropped. Constraint 5 dropped etc
> What does this mean?

This question is very generally formulated, as you didn't show the actual 
tests you perform, so you can only expect a very general answer. This
general answer is that 27 out of the 28 constraints implicit with these
tests already imply the constrained in the third test. Since that test is 
redundant it is dropped. 

Hope this helps,
Maarten

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