On Sat, 23 Jul 2005, jack wrote:

> [M]ost packages compute the AIC and BIC criteria for VARs by using 
> the average loglikelihood, whereas we use the total loglik. After 
> adjusting the correction factors accordingly, this means that we 
> end up with information criteria that are exactly n times those 
> from other packages (I checked with Stata and Eviews).

I have no particular commitment to using the total loglik, so let's 
go with what the other packages do.  (I set up those functions 
without checking what is "standard".)

Allin.

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