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RE: st: model selection using information criteria with xtlsdvc or xtabond2
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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RE: st: model selection using information criteria with xtlsdvc or xtabond2
Date
Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:50:35 +0000
One reason why many people who don't know Japanese just say and write AIC!
A story's been told often but may be new to some.
The fact that "AIC" starts with "A" for "Akaike" is just an accident, although it seems evident and natural in retrospect. Originally "AIC" was just a name in a FORTRAN program, and the "A" was Akaike's programmer's way of signalling that what was named held real (in general non-integer) values given a default that anything beginning with "I" (among other letters) held integers only. Had the programmer chosen the alternative of
REAL IC
then I suppose people could still be using "AIC", but for the right reason.
Nick
[email protected]
Marcello Pagano
Last I met him we pronounced it
A-ka-ee-ke (no emphases)
Hope we did not insult him :-)
(He, of course, was too polite to correct us!!)
m.p.
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