Which of the Following Statements About the Wald Statistic Is

question 14

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about the Wald statistic is false?

• A)The Wald statistic assesses the individual contribution of a predictor to a logistic regression model.
• B)The Wald statistic tends to be biased when the regression coefficient is large.
• C)The Wald statistic is analogous to the t-statistic in linear regression.
• D)The Wald statistic has a t-distribution.

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