Does the pseudo log-likelihood from PROC GLIMMIX mean anything?

SAS_Cares — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 19:04:19 GMT

A Twitter user asks:

SAS users: does the pseudo log-likelihood from PROC GLIMMIX mean anything? I am specifying a marginal (R-side) model thus can't have AIC/true log-likelihood for model comparison. #statstwitter #epitwitter
— Andreas Teferra (@andreteferra) January 11, 2020

With some clarifying questions and answers in the thread.

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Does the pseudo log-likelihood from PROC GLIMMIX mean anything?