“…However, we cannot simply maximize our likelihood, since, as is well known, likelihood maximization would overfit the data by favoring too many steps in the photobleaching time trace (Kalafut and Visscher, 2008). Typically, to prevent overfitting, model selection criteria—including the SIC (Schwarz, 1978; Cavanaugh and Neath, 1999), the Akaike information criterion (AIC; Akaike, 1974), and others (Kadane and Lazar, 2004; reviewed most recently in Tavakoli et al. , 2016)—compare different models on the basis of 1) their fit to the data and 2) the number of parameters (i.e., the complexity) of the model (Claeskens and Hjort, 2008; Tavakoli et al.…”