Goodness-of-Fit Statistics

The goodness-of-fit statistics table provides measures that are useful for comparing competing models. Additionally, the Value/df for the Deviance and Pearson Chi-Square statistics gives corresponding estimates for the scale parameter. These values should be near 1.0 for a Poisson regression; the fact that they are greater than 1.0 indicates that fitting the overdispersed model may be reasonable.

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