R help - Jan 2013 - Wald test for comparing coefficients across groups

Dear R users, 

   my question concerns my interest in comparing the beta coefficients between
two identical regression models in two  (actually 3) groups. Disclaimer: I am
quite new to R, so I might be missing some terminology that I have not come
across.

  I am trying to find out if I can easily implement a Wald test in R for this,
but the only relevant thing that I came across is this link
(http://hosho.ees.hokudai.ac.jp/~kubo/Rdoc/library/aod/html/wald.test.html),
which seems to be

referring to comparing the coefficients of separate IVs within the same
regression. What I am interested is to compare the coefficients of the same IVs
across three regressions and across three groups.


 Some basic information about my model/design:
My model includes 2 fixed factors (task, group) and 5 more IVs of interest.

Choice ~ Task * Group + IV1 + IV2 + IV3 + IV4 + IV5

I established that the Task * Group interaction is significant (by running two
models of a regression, one comparing a model with and one without the
interaction term) and I am interested to explore group differences within each
task

in a separate logistic regression. Task has 3 levels, therefore I do 3 of the
following regressions: Choice ~ Group + IV1 + IV2 + IV3 + IV4 + IV5, one for
each level of Task. At this point I want to compare betas for the 5 IVs across
my 3 groups

(actually I don't even need to compare all 5, based on the theory behind it,
if that is a concern for some in terms of groupwise errors).

PS: I did a z-test across my critical IVs between groups, which is quite similar
to Wald. I just want to do the Wald as well to doublecheck my results.

PS2: I also did another thing that some people might suggest, which is to recode
Group in 2 dummy variables and include those and the interaction terms within
each of my 3 regressions. I could go one

step back and do it in the original regression (Choice ~ Task * Group + IV1 +
IV2 + IV3) but I want to avoid having to include the complicated 3-way
interactions. Also, I don't think it is much of a problem
to analyze different tasks individually, especially after I have already
established that the Task * Group interaction is significant.

   So, can someone provide the code or point me to a place that a similar issue
might already have been discussed, for the case of doing a Wald test to compare
the beta coefficients of specific IVs
of interest  between different regressions/groups (same model used for all
thesegroups)?


 Thanks in advance,
Kostas

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