Research Article

Goodness-of-fit for GEE: an example with mental health service utilization

  1. Nicholas J. Horton1,*,
  2. Judith D. Bebchuk1,
  3. Cheryl L. Jones1,
  4. Stuart R. Lipsitz2,
  5. Paul J. Catalano2,
  6. Gwendolyn E. P. Zahner3,
  7. Garrett M. Fitzmaurice1

Article first published online: 15 JAN 1999

DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19990130)18:2<213::AID-SIM999>3.0.CO;2-E

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Statistics in Medicine

Statistics in Medicine

Volume 18, Issue 2, pages 213–222, 30 January 1999

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Horton, N. J., Bebchuk, J. D., Jones, C. L., Lipsitz, S. R., Catalano, P. J., Zahner, G. E. P. and Fitzmaurice, G. M. (1999), Goodness-of-fit for GEE: an example with mental health service utilization. Statistics in Medicine, 18: 213–222. doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19990130)18:2<213::AID-SIM999>3.0.CO;2-E

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  1. 1

    Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, U.S.A.

  2. 2

    Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston and Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, U.S.A.

  3. 3

    Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, U.S.A.

*Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, U.S.A.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 15 JAN 1999
  2. Article first published online: 15 JAN 1999
  3. Manuscript Revised:
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  • NCI. Grant Numbers: CA-55576, CA-70101-01
  • NIMH. Grant Numbers: T32-MH17119, U01-MH 51465, R01-MH54693
  • NNIEHS. Grant Number: ES-06900
  • NIH. Grant Number: F31-GM 17274

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Abstract

Suppose we use generalized estimating equations to estimate a marginal regression model for repeated binary observations. There are no established summary statistics available for assessing the adequacy of the fitted model. In this paper we propose a goodness-of-fit test statistic which has an approximate chi-squared distribution when we have specified the model correctly. The proposed statistic can be viewed as an extension of the Hosmer and Lemeshow goodness-of-fit statistic for ordinary logistic regression to marginal regression models for repeated binary responses. We illustrate the methods using data from a study of mental health service utilization by children. The repeated responses are a set of binary measures of service use. We fit a marginal logistic regression model to the data using generalized estimating equations, and we apply the proposed goodness-of-fit statistic to assess the adequacy of the fitted model. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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