Computation of the degrees of freedom of the chi-squared distribution relative to the model-based variance
dfSigma(contrast, vcov, dVcov, keep.param)
[numeric vector] the linear combination of parameters to test
[numeric matrix] the variance-covariance matrix of the parameters.
[numeric array] the first derivative of the variance-covariance matrix of the parameters.
[character vector] the name of the parameters with non-zero first derivative of their variance parameter.