| MLE | Maximum likelihood estimator |
| CMLE | Composite maximum likelihood estimator |
| CLDIC | Composite likelihood DIC |
| DPD | Density power divergence |
| MDPDE | Minimum density power divergence estimator |
| CMDPDE | Composite minimum density power divergence estimator |
| AIC | Akaike Information Criterion |
| CAIC | Composite Akaike Information Criterion |
| TIC | Takeuchi Information Criterion |