goodness of fit

noun

1. statistics the extent to which observed sample values of a variable approximate to values derived from a theoretical density, often measured by a chi-square test

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“We’re always in a perpetual state of analyzing the goodness of fit for any institutions that were coming to the Big Ten Conference.”

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It is not a state of goodness of fit.

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Holt has “a goodness of fit” for the program, agreed Steve Ridge, president of the media strategy group at Frank N. Magid Associates, a venerable TV-news consulting company.

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Seeking to deflect another potential line of attack from his critics, vom Saal conducted a 'goodness of fit' statistical analysis confirming that a non-monotonic curve best fits his data.

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This model is the second-best model in set B. AIC measures the relative goodness of fit of a given model; the lower its value, the more likely it is that this model is correct.

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