To our best knowledge, importance of the tree-based algorithms with the aid of the
goodness of fit criteria was very poorly highlighted (Eyduran et al., 2008; Yakubu, 2012).
In order to obtain a more complete evaluation of the performance of the models, two additional criteria based on the information theory were applied to compare the
goodness of fit of the models (Burnham & Anderson, 2002): the Akaike information criterion (AIC) and the Bayesian information criterion (BIC).
The
goodness of fit indexes are calculated in the same way as in the previous analysis.
Chi-square
goodness of fit test was used for univariate analysis of all the ten nominal variables to determine the significance of their observed counts to the expected counts of their respective attributes, assuming that they have equal expected counts.
The chi-square
goodness of fit compares the restricted model to the full model, where all elements of the covariance matrix are free to vary.
The
goodness of fit of the proposed models was determined using Akaike information criteria.
For this reason, in order to find the best fit for the distribution of household income, the possible use of GB2 and its nested alternative distributions model is investigated and their relative performance have been evaluated through the Bayesian information criterion (BIC), Chi-square
goodness of fit with supplemented others measures like sum of square of error (SSE) and sum of absolute error (SAE) measures.
CFA is used in the later part of analysis to test the model derived from EFA, by testing its "
goodness of fit" and conformity of the factors.
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Goodness of FitEs muy importante lo que otras personas piensan sobre .77 mi [What other people think about me is very important] Table 3 Goodness-of-fit indexes of a two-factor model with a general factor (N= 629) Goodness-of-fit indexes Two-factor model with a general factor RMSEA [90% CI] .045 [.038, .052] CFI .99 NNFI .99 GFI .99 ECVI [90% CI] .54 [.47, .62] [ji al cuadrado] (df) 265.93 (117) Satorra-Bentler Note: RMSEA= root mean square error of approximation; CI= confidence interval; CFI= comparative fit index; NNFI= non-normed fit index; GFI=
goodness of fit index; ECVI= expected cross-validation index.