Improving the Hosmer-Lemeshow goodness-of-fit test in large models with replicated Bernoulli trials

Nikola Surjanovic and Thomas M. Loughin

Journal of Applied Statistics, 2024, vol. 51, issue 7, 1399-1411

Abstract: The Hosmer-Lemeshow (HL) test is a commonly used global goodness-of-fit (GOF) test that assesses the quality of the overall fit of a logistic regression model. In this paper, we give results from simulations showing that the type I error rate (and hence power) of the HL test decreases as model complexity grows, provided that the sample size remains fixed and binary replicates (multiple Bernoulli trials) are present in the data. We demonstrate that a generalized version of the HL test (GHL) presented in previous work can offer some protection against this power loss. These results are also supported by application of both the HL and GHL test to a real-life data set. We conclude with a brief discussion explaining the behavior of the HL test, along with some guidance on how to choose between the two tests. In particular, we suggest the GHL test to be used when there are binary replicates or clusters in the covariate space, provided that the sample size is sufficiently large.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1080/02664763.2023.2272223

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