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Posted: **Sat Jul 28, 2018 2:30 pm**

Dear Colleagues,

I am trying to compare a two-level Poisson model and a two level Extra Poisson model. From what I have read, in Mlwin this can only be done with a Wald test.

I was just wondering how to set up the Wald test or if anyone could point me in the direction of some instructional literature that might help? I have not been able to find any.

Many thanks,

Liam

Posted: **Mon Jul 30, 2018 10:41 am**

I asked Kelvyn Jones about this and he gave the following response:

If you want to do a Wald test in MLwiN – use the intervals and test window to test whether the additional term is different from zero.

Here is a simple NBD model - the extra term is associated with pi-squared

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And you want to test that the 0.839 is different from zero
That is you test bcons2.1

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And you see that p is very small so there is a difference – the test is quite approximate however and people often divide by 2 to get a one-tailed test.

Posted: **Tue Aug 07, 2018 11:37 am**

Many thanks!

Liam

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