Information criterion

Information criterion may refer to the following.

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

Computing

• Information Criteria, a core component of the COBIT Framework