Statistics
- Akaike information criterion (AIC), a measure of the goodness fit of an estimated statistical model
- Bayesian information criterion (BIC), also known as the Schwarz information criterion, a statistical criterion for model selection
- Deviance information criterion (DIC), another Bayesian oriented model selection criterion
- Focused information criterion (FIC), a selection criterion sorting statistical models by their effectiveness for a given focus parameter
- Hannan-Quinn information criterion, an alternative to the Akaike and Bayesian criteria
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