IBM® SPSS® Amos™ 28

Because AIC, BCC, and BIC are used only for comparing models to each other, with smaller values being better than larger values, there is no harm in adding a constant, as in

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The rescaled values are either zero or positive. The best model according to, say, AIC has AIC0 = 0 while inferior models have positive AIC0 values that reflect how much worse they are than the best model.

oTo display AIC0, BCC0 and BIC0 after a specification search, click on the Specification Search toolbar, and then on the Current results tab of the Options dialog box, click Zero-based (min = 0).