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Wilcoxon versus glm

On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Dominik Grathwohl wrote:

            
In interpreting the glm output.  You should be using the likelihood ratio
test (28.216 - 19.899 on 1df) rather than the Wald test (the `z value').
Wald tests are dangerous in non-Gaussian glm's (look up the Hauck-Donner
effect) and I wish R had followed S and not quoted p values for them.