Generic function that computes Rao's score test statistics evaluated at the null values.

score.stat(object, ...)
score.stat.vlm(object, values0 = 0, subset = NULL, omit1s = TRUE,
          all.out = FALSE, orig.SE = FALSE, iterate.SE = TRUE,
          iterate.score = TRUE, trace = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

object, values0, subset

Same as in wald.stat.vlm.

omit1s, all.out

Same as in wald.stat.vlm.

orig.SE, iterate.SE

Same as in wald.stat.vlm.

iterate.score

Logical. The score vector is evaluated at one value of values0 and at other regression coefficient values. These other values may be either the MLE obtained from the original object (FALSE), else at values obtained by further IRLS iterations—this argument enables that choice.

trace

Same as in wald.stat.vlm.

...

Ignored for now.

Details

The (Rao) score test (also known as the Lagrange multiplier test in econometrics) is a third general method for hypothesis testing under a likelihood-based framework (the others are the likelihood ratio test and Wald test; see lrt.stat and wald.stat). Asymptotically, the three tests are equivalent. The Wald test is not invariant to parameterization, and the usual Wald test statistics computed at the estimates make it vulnerable to the Hauck-Donner effect (HDE; see hdeff). This function is similar to wald.stat in that one coefficient is set to 0 (by default) and the other coefficients are iterated by IRLS to get their MLE subject to this constraint. The SE is almost always based on the expected information matrix (EIM) rather than the OIM, and for some models the EIM and OIM coincide.

Value

By default the signed square root of the Rao score statistics are returned. If all.out = TRUE then a list is returned with the following components: score.stat the score statistic, SE0 the standard error of that coefficient, values0 the null values. Approximately, the default score statistics output are standard normal random variates if each null hypothesis is true.

Altogether, by the eight combinations of iterate.SE, iterate.score and orig.SE, there are six different variants of the Rao score statistic that can be returned because the score vector has 2 and the SEs have 3 subvariants.

Author

Thomas W. Yee

Warning

See wald.stat.vlm.

Examples

set.seed(1)
pneumo <- transform(pneumo, let = log(exposure.time),
                            x3 = rnorm(nrow(pneumo)))
(pfit <- vglm(cbind(normal, mild, severe) ~ let + x3, propodds, pneumo))
#> 
#> Call:
#> vglm(formula = cbind(normal, mild, severe) ~ let + x3, family = propodds, 
#>     data = pneumo)
#> 
#> 
#> Coefficients:
#> (Intercept):1 (Intercept):2           let            x3 
#>   -9.66744415  -10.57344562    2.58865720    0.08444356 
#> 
#> Degrees of Freedom: 16 Total; 12 Residual
#> Residual deviance: 4.763992 
#> Log-likelihood: -24.95885 
score.stat(pfit)  # No HDE here; should be similar to the next line:
#>       let        x3 
#> 8.3104839 0.5099257 
coef(summary(pfit))[, "z value"]  # Wald statistics computed at the MLE
#> (Intercept):1 (Intercept):2           let            x3 
#>    -7.2264190    -7.7810263     6.7225483     0.5173993 
summary(pfit, score0 = TRUE)
#> 
#> Call:
#> vglm(formula = cbind(normal, mild, severe) ~ let + x3, family = propodds, 
#>     data = pneumo)
#> 
#> Rao score test coefficients: 
#>     Estimate Std. Error z value Pr(>|z|)    
#> let  2.58866    0.19627    8.31   <2e-16 ***
#> x3   0.08444    0.16416    0.51     0.61    
#> ---
#> Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
#> 
#> Names of linear predictors: logitlink(P[Y>=2]), logitlink(P[Y>=3])
#> 
#> Residual deviance: 4.764 on 12 degrees of freedom
#> 
#> Log-likelihood: -24.9588 on 12 degrees of freedom
#> 
#> Number of Fisher scoring iterations: 4 
#> 
#> 
#> Exponentiated coefficients:
#>       let        x3 
#> 13.311884  1.088111