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The Browne-Cudeck (Browne & Cudeck, 1989) criterion is given by

where if the Emulisrel6 method has been used, or if it has not.

BCC imposes a slightly greater penalty for model complexity than does AIC.

BCC is the only measure in this section that was developed specifically for analysis of moment structures. Browne and Cudeck provided some empirical evidence suggesting that BCC may be superior to more generally applicable measures. Arbuckle (unpublished) gives an alternative justification for BCC and derives the above formula for multiple groups.

See also MECVI.

Use the \bcc text macro to display BCC on a path diagram.