| AIC | Akaike Information Criterion |
| BIC | Bayesian Information Criterion |
| GIC | General Information Criterion |
| DIC | Divergence Information Criterion |
| MDIC | Modified Divergence Information Criterion |
| PIC | Pseudodistance based Information Criterion |
| BHHJ family of measures | Basu, Harris, Hjort and Jones family of measures |