Deviance (statistics)

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. Article “Deviance (statistics)” in English Wikipedia has 21.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 7 references and 6 sections.

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Deviance (statistics)”, its content was written by 40 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 63 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 19 times in English Wikipedia and cited 31 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #19627 in January 2004
• Global: #38705 in January 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #137264 in April 2015
• Global: #247334 in April 2015

There are 5 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	German (de) Devianz (Statistik)		22.6313
2	English (en) Deviance (statistics)		21.8816
3	Portuguese (pt) Desvio (estatística)		13.7501
4	Spanish (es) Desviación (medida de bondad de ajuste)		11.8704
5	Italian (it) Devianza (statistica matematica)		3.1404

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Deviance (statistics)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Deviance (statistics)		789 664
2	German (de) Devianz (Statistik)		21 092
3	Italian (it) Devianza (statistica matematica)		13 644
4	Portuguese (pt) Desvio (estatística)		5 646
5	Spanish (es) Desviación (medida de bondad de ajuste)		3 199

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Deviance (statistics)" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Deviance (statistics)		924
2	German (de) Devianz (Statistik)		87
3	Spanish (es) Desviación (medida de bondad de ajuste)		30
4	Portuguese (pt) Desvio (estatística)		10
5	Italian (it) Devianza (statistica matematica)		9

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Deviance (statistics)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Deviance (statistics)		40
2	German (de) Devianz (Statistik)		9
3	Italian (it) Devianza (statistica matematica)		8
4	Spanish (es) Desviación (medida de bondad de ajuste)		3
5	Portuguese (pt) Desvio (estatística)		3

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Deviance (statistics)" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Devianz (Statistik)		0
2	English (en) Deviance (statistics)		0
3	Spanish (es) Desviación (medida de bondad de ajuste)		0
4	Italian (it) Devianza (statistica matematica)		0
5	Portuguese (pt) Desvio (estatística)		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Deviance (statistics)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Deviance (statistics)		19
2	German (de) Devianz (Statistik)		8
3	Spanish (es) Desviación (medida de bondad de ajuste)		2
4	Italian (it) Devianza (statistica matematica)		2
5	Portuguese (pt) Desvio (estatística)		0

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#	Language	Value
de	German Devianz (Statistik)
en	English Deviance (statistics)
es	Spanish Desviación (medida de bondad de ajuste)
it	Italian Devianza (statistica matematica)
pt	Portuguese Desvio (estatística)

Best Rank

English: #137264 04.2015

Global: #247334 04.2015

Best Rank

English: #19627 01.2004

Global: #38705 01.2004

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