Search Results - subject:"Goodness–of–fit"

Goodness-of-fit tests for categorical data

Bellocco, Rino; Algeri, Sara - In: Stata Journal 13 (2013) 2, pp. 356-365

model. Consequently, measures and tests of goodness of fit can lead to different results and interpretations. Thus one must … show how Stata 12.1 performs when implementing goodness of fit. In this situation, it is important to clarify which one of …

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Empirical income distributions: the case of Sri Lanka

Naranpanawa, Athula; Selvanathan, Saroja - In: International Journal of Social Economics 40 (2013) January, pp. 26-50

Purpose – There has been growing interest in recent years in modelling various poverty-related issues. However, there have not been many attempts at empirical estimation of best-fit income distribution functions with an objective of subsequent use in poverty focused models. The purpose of this...

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A Asymptotic Total Variation Test for Copulas

Fermanian, Jean-David; Radulovic, Dragan; Wegkamp, Marten - Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique … - 2013

We propose a new goodness-of-fit test for copulas, based on empirical copula processes and nonparametric bootstrap …

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Testing the fit of the logistic model for matched case-control studies

Chen, Li-Ching; Wang, Jiun-Yi - In: Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 57 (2013) 1, pp. 309-319

the goodness-of-fit in the logistic case-control studies becomes more important in practice. While various methods for … adequacy with matched case-control data get relatively less attention. In this study, we propose an omnibus goodness-of-fit …

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A goodness-of-fit testing approach for normality based on the posterior predictive distribution

He, Daojiang; Xu, Xingzhong - In: TEST: An Official Journal of the Spanish Society of … 22 (2013) 1, pp. 1-18

In this paper, we propose several new goodness-of-fit tests for normality based on the distance between the observed …

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On the goodness-of-fit procedure for normality based on the empirical characteristic function for ranked set sampling data

Balakrishnan, N.; Brito, M.; Quiroz, A. - In: Metrika 76 (2013) 2, pp. 161-177

The behaviour of the goodness-of-fit procedure for normality based on weighted integrals of the empirical …

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Goodness-of-fit indices for partial least squares path modeling

Henseler, Jörg; Sarstedt, Marko - In: Computational Statistics 28 (2013) 2, pp. 565-580

This paper discusses a recent development in partial least squares (PLS) path modeling, namely goodness-of-fit indices …. In order to illustrate the behavior of the goodness-of-fit index (GoF) and the relative goodness-of-fit index (GoF …

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Evaluation of confidence intervals for the kappa statistic when the assumption of marginal homogeneity is violated

Parpia, Sameer; Koval, John; Donner, Allan - In: Computational Statistics 28 (2013) 6, pp. 2709-2718

considered: the goodness-of-fit approach and the modified Wald method. Evaluation was done by exact calculation of the confidence …> </InlineEquation>10 %), the goodness- of-fit approach can be recommended. Moreover, under these same conditions, Cohen’s kappa tends to …

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Goodness-of-fit testing for fractional diffusions

Podolskij, Mark; Wasmuth, Katrin - In: Statistical Inference for Stochastic Processes 16 (2013) 2, pp. 147-159

This paper presents a goodness-of-fit test for the volatility function of a SDE driven by a Gaussian process with …

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An empirical likelihood ratio based goodness-of-fit test for skew normality

Ning, Wei; Ngunkeng, Grace - In: Statistical Methods and Applications 22 (2013) 2, pp. 209-226

In this paper, an empirical likelihood ratio based goodness-of-fit test for the skew normality is proposed. The …

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