A comparison of goodness-of-fit tests for the logistic regression model

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 965-980

  Hosmer, D W ^a   Hosmer, T ^a   Le Cessie, S ^b   Lemeshow, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; STATISTICS;

EID: 0031006441     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19970515)16:9<965::AID-SIM509>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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