Dear all, This is off-topic, however I hope someone can give me useful suggestion.. Given the regression model y = b0 + b1*x + e I am interested in testing for positive coeffs, namely H0: b0>0 AND b1>0 H1: b0,b1 unconstrained It is simple to estimate the model under H0 and H1 (there are several suggestions on the Rlist about estimation but nothing about testing..) perform a likelihood ratio test by comparing the logLik under the constrained and the unconstrained models, however I do not know how many degrees of freedom.. Model under H0 uses two df, however it reasonable to believe that the real dimension is <=2.. Is there anyone which can give me any advices or suggest me references? Many thanks, vito -- ===================================Vito M.R. Muggeo Dip.to Sc Statist e Matem `Vianelli' Universit? di Palermo viale delle Scienze, edificio 13 90128 Palermo - ITALY tel: 091 6626240 fax: 091 485726/485612 http://dssm.unipa.it/vmuggeo