Goodness-of-fit measures in binary choice models *
Author:
Frank A. G. Windmeijer a
| Affiliation: | a Department of Statistics Faculty of Economics and Commerce, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia |
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10.1080/07474939508800306
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Abstract
In this paper, a review is given of various goodness-of-fit measures that have been proposed for the binary choice model in the last two decades. The relative behaviour of several pseudo-R2 measures is analysed in a series of misspecified binary choice models, the misspecification being omitted variables or an included irrelevant variable. A comparison is made with the OLS-R2 of the underlying latent variable model and with the squared sample correlation coefficient of the true and predicted probabilities. Further, it is investigated how the values of the measures change with a changing frequency rate of successes.
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1This paper is drawn from the author's PhD thesis, obtained from the University of Amsterdam. I would like to thank Heinz Neudecker, Risto Heijmans and Piet Groeneboom for helpful comments
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| Keywords: Discrete Choice; Goodness Of Fit |
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