Makes it more convenient to compute model selection criteria.

Avoids
```
.tox\unit\lib\site-packages\pandas\__init__.py:249: in <module>
    warnings.warn(
E   DeprecationWarning:
E   Pyarrow will become a required dependency of pandas in the next major release of pandas (pandas 3.0),
E   (to allow more performant data types, such as the Arrow string type, and better interoperability with other libraries)
E   but was not found to be installed on your system.
E   If this would cause problems for you,
E   please provide us feedback at pandas-dev/pandas#54466
```

Co-authored-by: Dilan Pathirana <[email protected]>