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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
DOI: 10.1080/07474939508800306
Publication Frequency: 6 issues per year
Published in: journal Econometric Reviews, Volume 14, Issue 1 1995 , pages 101 - 116
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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.
* 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
Keywords: Discrete Choice; Goodness Of Fit
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