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IBM® SPSS® Amos™ 28

The Bayes information criterion (Schwarz, 1978; Raftery, 1995) is given by the formula,

7280.

Amos 4 used the formula (Raftery, 1993),

7281.

In comparison to AIC, BCC and CAIC, BIC assigns a greater penalty to model complexity, and so has a greater tendency to pick parsimonious models. BIC is reported only for the case of a single group where means and intercepts are not explicit model parameters.

Use the \bic text macro to display BIC on a path diagram.

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