Bonnie, Wirt Atmar's erudite reply unfortunately ends with the wrong answer to your question: it is the lowest number you want, not the lowest absolute number. So in your case, the value of -1033 indicates the most parsimonious model. That is the one with 16 parameters, which is good, as there many difficulties with having 58-parameters! Having said that, 16 parameters is a lot as well, so, without knowing anything about your model, you might want to look for redundancy, and/or try to reduce your number of parameters with PCA or some other technique.
Gareth Russell NJIT/Rutgers
