Hello.

The sentence in extractAIC's help 
<http://www.stat.psu.edu/~dhunter/R/html/stats/html/extractAIC.html> which 
discusses AIC's estimate of -2logL from RSS reads: "AIC only handles unknown 
scale and uses the formula n log (RSS/n) - n + n log 2pi - sum(log w) where w 
are the weights. Further AIC counts the scale estimation as a parameter in the 
edf and extractAIC does not." Am I misunderstanding something, or should it 
have a +n as the second term and not a -n? That's what seems to be happening in 
gaussian()$aic (not counting an extra addition of +2). It also could be that 
I've confused something somewhere, so I appreciate any elucidation.

Thank you,

Avraham Adler
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