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[email protected] FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES A STUDY OF SOME ISSUES OF GOODNESS-OF-FIT TESTS FOR LOGISTIC REGRESSION By WEI MA A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Statistics in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy 2018 Copyright c 2018 Wei Ma. All Rights Reserved. Wei Ma defended this dissertation on July 17, 2018. The members of the supervisory committee were: Dan McGee Professor Co-Directing Dissertation Qing Mai Professor Co-Directing Dissertation Cathy Levenson University Representative Xufeng Niu Committee Member The Graduate School has verified and approved the above-named committee members, and certifies that the dissertation has been approved in accordance with university requirements. ii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS First of all, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my advisors, Dr. Dan McGee and Dr. Qing Mai, for their encouragement, continuous support of my PhD study, patient guidance. I could not have completed this dissertation without their help and immense knowledge. I have been extremely lucky to have them as my advisors. I would also like to thank the rest of my committee members: Dr. Cathy Levenson and Dr. Xufeng Niu for their support, comments and help for my thesis. I would like to thank all the staffs and graduate students in my department.