This article was written by Jim Frost from Minitab. He came to Minitab with a background in a wide variety of academic research. His role was the "data/stat guy" on research projects that ranged from osteoporosis prevention to quantitative studies of online user behavior. Essentially, his job was to design the appropriate research conditions, accurately generate a vast sea of measurements, and then pull out patterns and meanings from it. After you have fit a linear model using regression analysis, ANOVA, or design of experiments (DOE), you need to determine how well the model fits the data. To help you out, Minitab statistical software presents a variety of goodness-of-fit statistics.

This article was written by Jim Frost from Minitab. He came to Minitab with a background in a wide variety of academic research. His role was the "data/stat guy" on research projects that ranged from osteoporosis prevention to quantitative studies of online user behavior. Essentially, his job was to design the appropriate research conditions, accurately generate a vast sea of measurements, and then pull out patterns and meanings from it. After you have fit a linear model using regression analysis, ANOVA, or design of experiments (DOE), you need to determine how well the model fits the data. To help you out, Minitab statistical software presents a variety of goodness-of-fit statistics.