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Akaike information criterion
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English
Etymology
Named after the Japanese statistician Hirotsugu Akaike, who formulated the criterion.
Proper noun
1
An estimator of prediction error and thereby relative quality of statistical models for a given data set, founded on the principles of information theory.
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