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Fisher information

Noun

Meaning

Fisher information (uncountable)

(statistics) A measure of the amount of information that an observable random variable X carries about an unknown parameter θ of a distribution that models X. Formally, it is the variance of the score, or the expected value of the observed information.

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Examples

This is a biased estimator whose expectation is : An unbiased sample covariance is : The Fisher information matrix for estimating the parameters of a multivariate normal distribution has a closed form expression. Source: Internet

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