Global goodness-of-fit tests in logistic regression with sparse data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 24, 2002, Pages 3789-3801

  Kuss, Oliver ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Goodness of fit; Hosmer Lemeshow test; Logistic regression; Sparse data

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHI SQUARE TEST; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; DATA ANALYSIS; DERMATOLOGY; HAIRDRESSER; HAND ECZEMA; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

BEAUTY CULTURE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HAND DERMATOSES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0037203108     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1421     Document Type: Article

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