Have you performed routine diagnostics, eg, examined
residuals, checked for outliers and overly influential
observations, ruled out multicollinearity, checked for
linearity in the logit, etc?
SR Millis
--- Subhash Pokhrel
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear List members,
>
> I have two continuous variables and eight dummy
> variables in a logistic
> regression model (n= about 17,500). I tried to test
> the model goodness of
> fit with Hosmer Lemeshow test which gave me large
> chi2 value with very small
> p value, showing the lack of fit. If I drop one of
> the two continuous
> variables from the model, I get much smaller Chi2
> with large p values. Since
> this is the most important variable I would like
> have in the model, I would
> appreciate receiving your suggestion as to how I
> could solve this problem.
> Is there any other tests available in Stata?
> Surprisingly, while searching
> the net I came across a very big criticism of using
> Hosmer-Lemeshow test.
> Thanks,
> Subhash.
>
>
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Scott R Millis, PhD, MEd, ABPP (CN & RP)
Director, Office of Clinical Trials
Kessler Medical Rehabilitation Research & Education Corp
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West Orange, NJ 07052
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