goodness of fit

goodness of fit
Degree of agreement between an empirically observed distribution and a mathematical or theoretical distribution.

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  • Goodness of Fit — Die Anpassungsgüte (engl. goodness of fit) beschreibt, wie gut ein statistisches Modell eine Menge von Beobachtungen trifft. Das Maß der Anpassungsgüte fasst typischerweise die Diskrepanz zwischen beobachteten Werten und Werten, die man aufgrund… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Goodness of fit — Die Anpassungsgüte (engl. goodness of fit) beschreibt, wie gut ein statistisches Modell eine Menge von Beobachtungen trifft. Das Maß der Anpassungsgüte fasst typischerweise die Diskrepanz zwischen beobachteten Werten und Werten, die man aufgrund… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • goodness of fit Statistics — the extent to which observed data match the values expected by theory. → goodness …   English new terms dictionary

  • goodness of fit — Date: 1895 the conformity between an experimental result and theoretical expectation or between data and an approximating curve …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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  • Goodness-of-Fit-Test — ⇡ statistische Testverfahren …   Lexikon der Economics

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