IBM® SPSS® Amos™ 28

Bozdogan's (Bozdogan, 1987) CAIC (consistent AIC) is given by the formula,

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CAIC assigns a greater penalty to model complexity than either AIC or BCC, but not as great a penalty as does BIC. CAIC is reported only for the case of a single group where means and intercepts are not explicit model parameters.

Use the \caic text macro to display CAIC on a path diagram.