Talk:Wald test

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[edit] Name of article

Shouldn't we move it to Wald's test for consistency with his other articles and grammatical correctness?--Adoniscik (talk) 07:01, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

It's usually referred to as a "Wald test" in statistical practice - at least in my discipline, which is medical statistics. --Pstevens (talk) 13:20, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
It's "Wald's test" in my dictionary of statistics (Everitt). Melcombe (talk) 13:37, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Copyediting

Thanks to the previous editor for improving the flow of the text. I've just changed the first section a little because the Wald test is not only for dichotomous variables [1]. I've mentioned continuous variables specifically. I haven't (yet) put anything about categorical variables being handled via multiple dummy variables because the page doesn't yet describe the Wald test on multiple variables. I'll come back to this when I have more time.--Pstevens 11:48, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Stating the hypothesis explicitly

I hope I haven't caused offence by reverting the edits by 134.48.244.232. In fact there are many hypotheses that can be tested by a Wald test, because it is a very general test procedure for parametric models. --Pstevens (talk) 13:37, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Speaking of generality, it would be nice if there were some discussion of generalized (>1df) Wald tests.

[edit] References for the Talk Page

  1. ^ Stata 9 reference manual (Volume [R]R-Z page 416), ISBN 1-881228-93-2 (I'll look for a better reference to use in the main article.)