Definition:Deviance
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Definition
Deviance is a measure for judging how well data fit a model using maximum likelihood estimates in generalized linear models.
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Historical Note
The concept of deviance was introduced by John Ashworth Nelder and Robert William Maclagan Wedderburn in $1972$.
Sources
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): deviance
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): deviance