Research Article

Nonlinear Effect of Urbanization on the Gap between Urban and Rural Elementary Education in China

Table 3

The number of transition functions and location parameters.

Null hypothesis and alternative hypothesisStatisticsNumber of location parameters
m = 1m = 2

H0: r = 1 vs H1: r = 2Wald test (LM)27.283[0.000]24.560[0.006]
Fisher test (LMF)9.177[0.000]8.270[0.001]
LRT test (LRT)17.712[0.000]25.438[0.005]
: r = 2 vs : r = 3Wald test (LM)6.593 [0.168]3.318 [0.206]
Fisher test (LMF)1.996 [0.185]1.172 [0.309]
LRT test (LRT)6.987 [0.124]3.570 [0.194]

AIC−1.7340−1.7194
BIC−1.5940−1.5899