# Understanding LOOIC

**URL:** <https://discourse.mc-stan.org/t/understanding-looic/13409>\
**Category:** Modeling\
**Tags:** loo, interpret-results, cognitive-science\
**Created:** [February 29, 2020, 12:51pm UTC](https://discourse.mc-stan.org/t/understanding-looic/13409 "2020-02-29T12:51:21Z")\
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> [@andre.pfeuffer](#):
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> -1.9 / 0.3

Thanks so much! This provides lots of clarification. For future reference though, what if the difference was not 4-5 bigger? Say it was only twice as big…would that mean there is a negligible difference between the models?

And in general, can I think of this kind of like a Wald chi-square test for my models, or is that not really a correct interpretation?

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