Table 7.

Comparison of Models Predicting ACE Transform of Bond Albedo, Back-transformed Prediction, R², and Adjusted R², for Prediction of the ACE Transform of A, for Prediction of the Back-transform to A, AIC Score, and Log-likelihood That the Model Minimizes the Information Loss over the Model with the Lowest AIC Score

Model	Description	R2 for Prediction of acet(A)	Adjusted R2 Prediction of acet(A)	R2 after Back-transform to A Units	AIC	Log-likelihood
tAp.all	GAM of all ACE transforms	0.935	0.919	0.834	27	1.0
tAp.no-x.all	GAM without ACE transforms of explanatory variables in tAp.all	0.640	0.555	−0.211	109	1.6e−18
tAp.tS0X.tTstar. K.all	GAM with only two variables, transforms of S0X and Tstar.K	0.727	0.715	0.352	82	1.1e−12