# deviance

> quality-of-fit statistic for a model that is often used for statistical hypothesis testing;a generalization of the idea of using the sum of squares of residuals in ordinary least squares to cases where model-fitting is achieved by maximum likelihood

**Wikidata**: [Q3706279](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3706279)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deviance_(statistics))  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/deviance-q3706279


## References

1. [OpenAlex](https://docs.openalex.org/download-snapshot/snapshot-data-format)