Open Journal of Statistics, 2017, 7, 434-445
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ISSN Online: 2161-7198
ISSN Print: 2161-718X
DOI: 10.4236/ojs.2017.73031 June 12, 2017
Asymptomatic Distribution of Goodness-of-Fit
Tests in Logistic Regression Model
Nuri H. Salem Badi
Mathematics Department, Faculty of Art and science-Alabyar University of Benghazi, Benghazi, Libya
Abstract
The logistic regression model has been become commonly used to study the
association between a binary response variable; it is widespread application
rests on its easy application and interpretation. The subject of assessment of
goodness-of-fit in logistic regression model has attracted the attention of
many scientists and researchers. Goodness-of-fit tests are methods to deter-
mine the suitability of the fitted model. Many of methods proposed and dis-
cussed for assessing goodness-of fit in logistic regression model, however, the
asymptotic distribution of goodness-of-fit statistics are less examine, it is need
more investigated. This work, will focus on assessing the behavior of asymp-
totic distribution of goodness-of-fit tests, also make comparison between
global goodness-of-fit tests, and evaluate it by simulation.
Keywords
Logistic Regression Model, Goodness-of-Fit Tests
1. Introduction
The goal of a logistic regression analysis is to find the best fitting model to de-
scribe the relationship between an outcome and covariates where the outcome is
dichotomous, [1] considered the logistic regression model is a member of the
class of the generalized linear models. Many assumptions and more details con-
sidered about the behavior of logistic model see [2] [3], also for more application
see [4] [5] [6] [7]. The goodness-of-fit is very important to decide if the more
succinct model is adequate. After fitting the logistic regression model, the next
step is to examine the proposed model how well fits the observation data and to
know how effective the model is; this is called as its goodness-of-fit. Good-
ness-of-fit tests for the logistic regression can be split into three types: 1) Those
based an examination of residuals; 2) Those based a test which groups the ob-
How to cite this paper: Badi, N.H.S. (2017)
Asymptomatic Distribution of Goodness-of-
Fit Tests in Logistic Regression Model. Open
Journal of Statistics, 7, 434-445.
https://doi.org/10.4236/ojs.2017.73031
Received: April 17, 2017
Accepted: June 9, 2017
Published: June 12, 2017
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