Definition The deviance residual is defined as rDi=sign(yi−μ^i)di=sign(yi−μ^i)2[lβ^max;yi)−lβ^;yi)] where μ^=μ(θ)=b′(θ), V(μ^)=b′′(θ) is the variance function, and the Deviance D=i=1∑ndi