Dear Johan,
It's generally a good idea to keep the conversation on r-help to allow
list members to follow it, and so I'm cc'ing this response to the list.
I hope that it's clear that car::linearHypothesis() computes the test as
a Wald test of a linear hypothesis and not as a likelihood-ratio test by
model comparison. As your example illustrates, however, the two tests
are the same for a linear model, but this is not true more generally.
As I mentioned, you can find the details in many sources, including in
Section 5.3.5 of Fox and Weisberg, An R Companion to Applied Regression,
3rd Edition, the book with which the car package is associated.
Best,
John
On 2020-09-17 4:03 p.m., Johan Lassen wrote:> Thank you John - highly appreciated! Yes, you are right, the less
> complex model may be seen as a restricted model of the starting model.
> Although the set of variables in the less complex model is not directly
> a subset of the variables of the starting model. What confused me at
> first was that I think of a subset model as a model having a direct
> subset of the set of variables of the starting model. Even though this
> is not the case in the example, the test still is on a restricted model
> of the starting model.
> Thanks,
> Johan
>
> Den tor. 17. sep. 2020 kl. 15.55 skrev John Fox <jfox at mcmaster.ca
> <mailto:jfox at mcmaster.ca>>:
>
> Dear Johan,
>
> On 2020-09-17 9:07 a.m., Johan Lassen wrote:
> > Dear R-users,
> >
> > I am using the R-function "linearHypothesis" to test if
the sum
> of all
> > parameters, but the intercept, in a multiple linear regression is
> different
> > from zero.
> > I wonder if it is statistically valid to use the
> linearHypothesis-function
> > for this?
>
> Yes, assuming of course that the hypothesis makes sense.
>
>
> > Below is a reproducible example in R. A multiple regression: y
> > beta0*t0+beta1*t1+beta2*t2+beta3*t3+beta4*t4
> >
> > It seems to me that the linearHypothesis function does the
> calculation as
> > an F-test on the extra residuals when going from the starting
> model to a
> > 'subset' model, although all variables in the
'subset' model
> differ from
> > the variables in the starting model.
> > I normally think of a subset model as a model built on the same
> input data
> > as the starting model but one variable.
> >
> > Hence, is this a valid calculation?
>
> First, linearHypothesis() doesn't literally fit alternative models,
but
> rather tests the linear hypothesis directly from the coefficient
> estimates and their covariance matrix. The test is standard -- look at
> the references in ?linearHypothesis or most texts on linear models.
>
> Second, formulating the hypothesis using alternative models is also
> legitimate, since the second model is a restricted version of the
first.
>
> >
> > Thanks in advance,Johan
> >
> > # R-code:
> > y <-
> >
>
c(101133190,96663050,106866486,97678429,83212348,75719714,77861937,74018478,82181104,68667176,64599495,62414401,63534709,58571865,65222727,60139788,
> >
>
63355011,57790610,55214971,55535484,55759192,49450719,48834699,51383864,51250871,50629835,52154608,54636478,54942637)
> >
> > data <-
> >
>
data.frame(y,"t0"=1,"t1"=1990:2018,"t2"=c(rep(0,12),1:17),"t3"=c(rep(0,17),1:12),"t4"=c(rep(0,23),1:6))
> >
> > model <- lm(y~t0+t1+t2+t3+t4+0,data=data)
>
> You need not supply the constant regressor t0 explicitly and suppress
> the intercept -- you'd get the same test from linearHypothesis()
for
> lm(y~t1+t2+t3+t4,data=data).
>
> >
> >
linearHypothesis(model,"t1+t2+t3+t4=0",test=c("F"))
>
> test = "F" is the default.
>
> >
> > # Reproduce the result from linearHypothesis:
> > # beta1+beta2+beta3+beta4=0 -> beta4=-(beta1+beta2+beta3)
->
> > # y=beta0+beta1*t1+beta2*t2+beta3*t3-(beta1+beta2+beta3)*t4
> > # y =
beta0'+beta1'*(t1-t4)+beta2'*(t2-t4)+beta3'*(t3-t4)
> >
> > data$t1 <- data$t1-data$t4
> > data$t2 <- data$t2-data$t4
> > data$t3 <- data$t3-data$t4
> >
> > model_reduced <- lm(y~t0+t1+t2+t3+0,data=data)
> >
> > anova(model_reduced,model)
>
> Yes, this is equivalent to the test performed by linearHypothesis()
> using the coefficients and their covariances from the original model.
>
> I hope this helps,
> ? John
>
> --
> John Fox, Professor Emeritus
> McMaster University
> Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
> web: https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/jfox/
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Johan Lassen
>
> "In the cities people live in time -
> in the mountains people live in space" (Budistisk munk).
--
John Fox, Professor Emeritus
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
web: https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/jfox/