Dear Steven,

OK -- that makes sense, and there was also a previous request for 
linearHypothesis() to return the value of the hypothesis and its covariance 
matrix. In your case, where there's only 1 numerator df, that would be the 
value and estimated sampling variance of the hypothesis.

I've now implemented that, using (at least provisionally) attributes in the 
development version of the car package on R-Forge, which you should be able to 
install via install.packages("car", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org";). Then 
see ?linearHypothesis for more information.

Best,
 John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Yen [mailto:sye...@gmail.com]
> Sent: June 28, 2016 3:44 PM
> To: Fox, John <j...@mcmaster.ca>
> Cc: R-help <r-help@r-project.org>
> Subject: Re: [R] t-test for regression estimate
> 
> Thanks John. Reason is I am doing linear transformations of many coefficients
> (e.g., bi / scalar). Of course I can uncover the t-statistic from the F 
> statistic and
> then the standard error. Simply scaling the estimated coefficients I can also
> transform the standard errors. I have since found deltaMethod from library
> "car" useful. Its just that, if linearHypothesis had provide the standard 
> errors
> and t-statistics then the operation would have been easier, with a one-line
> command for each coefficient. Thank you again.
> 
> 
> On 6/28/2016 6:28 PM, Fox, John wrote:
> 
> 
>       Dear Steven,
> 
>       The reason that linearHypothesis() computes a Wald F or chisquare
> test rather than a t or z test is that the (numerator) df for the linear 
> hypothesis
> need not be 1.
> 
>       In your case (as has been pointed out) you can get the coefficient
> standard error directly from the model summary.
> 
>       More generally, with some work, you could solve for the the SE for a 1
> df linear hypothesis in terms of the value of the linear function of 
> coefficients
> and the F or chisquare. That said, I'm not sure why you want to do this.
> 
>       I hope this helps,
>        John
> 
>       -----------------------------
>       John Fox, Professor
>       McMaster University
>       Hamilton, Ontario
>       Canada L8S 4M4
>       Web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox
> 
> 
> 
>               -----Original Message-----
>               From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf
> Of Steven Yen
>               Sent: June 28, 2016 9:27 AM
>               To: R-help <r-help@r-project.org> <mailto:r-help@r-
> project.org>
>               Subject: [R] t-test for regression estimate
> 
>               test option for linearHypothesis in library(car) include "Chisq"
> and "F". I prefer
>               a simple t-test so that I can retrieve the standard error.
>               Any options other than linearHypothesis to test the linear
> hypothesis (with 1
>               restriction/degree of freedom)?
> 
>                > summary(ols1)
> 
>               Coefficients:
>                            Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
>               (Intercept) -0.20013    0.09199  -2.176   0.0298 *
>               age          0.04054    0.01721   2.355   0.0187 *
>               suburb       0.01911    0.05838   0.327   0.7435
>               smcity      -0.29969    0.19175  -1.563   0.1184
>               ---
>               Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
> 
>                > linearHypothesis(ols1,"suburb")
>               Linear hypothesis test
> 
>               Hypothesis:
>               suburb = 0
> 
>               Model 1: restricted model
>               Model 2: polideo ~ age + suburb + smcity
> 
>                  Res.Df    RSS Df Sum of Sq      F Pr(>F)
>               1    888 650.10
>               2    887 650.02  1  0.078534 0.1072 0.7435
> 
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