The new book by Vittinghoff et al. (2005) is reviewed.

After a logistic regression model has been fitted, a global test of goodness of fit of the resulting model should be performed. A test that is commonly used to assess model fit is the Hosmer-Lemeshow test, which is available in Stata and most other statistical software programs. However, it is...

Testing goodness of fit is an important step in evaluating a statistical model. For binary logistic regression models, the Hosmer–Lemeshow goodnessof- fit test is often used. For multinomial logistic regression models, however, few tests are available. We present the mlogitgof command, which...