Goodness-of-Fit Statistics for Discrete Multivariate Data

Read Timothy R.C. Cressie Noel

ISBN 10: 1461289319 / ISBN 13: 9781461289319

Edité par Springer, 2011

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• Titre: Goodness-of-Fit Statistics for Discrete Multivariate Data
• Éditeur: Springer
• Date de parution: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1461289319
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781461289319
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: New

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Synopsis

The statistical analysis of discrete multivariate data has received a great deal of attention in the statistics literature over the past two decades. The develop- ment ofappropriate models is the common theme of books such as Cox (1970), Haberman (1974, 1978, 1979), Bishop et al. (1975), Gokhale and Kullback (1978), Upton (1978), Fienberg (1980), Plackett (1981), Agresti (1984), Goodman (1984), and Freeman (1987). The objective of our book differs from those listed above. Rather than concentrating on model building, our intention is to describe and assess the goodness-of-fit statistics used in the model verification part of the inference process. Those books that emphasize model development tend to assume that the model can be tested with one of the traditional goodness-of-fit tests 2 2 (e.g., Pearson's X or the loglikelihood ratio G ) using a chi-squared critical value. However, it is well known that this can give a poor approximation in many circumstances. This book provides the reader with a unified analysis of the traditional goodness-of-fit tests, describing their behavior and relative merits as well as introducing some new test statistics. The power-divergence family of statistics (Cressie and Read, 1984) is used to link the traditional test statistics through a single real-valued parameter, and provides a way to consolidate and extend the current fragmented literature. As a by-product of our analysis, a new 2 2 statistic emerges "between" Pearson's X and the loglikelihood ratio G that has some valuable properties.