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In mixed linear models with nonnormal data, the Gaussian Fisher information matrix is called a quasi-information matrix (QUIM). The QUIM plays an important role in evaluating the asymptotic covariance matrix of the estimators of the model…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Jiming Jiang

We study the information content of summary statistics built from the multi-scale topology of large-scale structures on primordial non-Gaussianity of the local and equilateral type. We use halo catalogs generated from numerical N-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-05 Matteo Biagetti , Juan Calles , Lina Castiblanco , Alex Cole , Jorge Noreña

Relative Fisher information, also known as score matching, is a recently introduced learning method for parameter estimation. Fundamental relations between relative entropy and score matching have been established in the literature for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Yirong Shen , Lu Gan , Cong Ling

The Fisher Information Matrix formalism is extended to cases where the data is divided into two parts (X,Y), where the expectation value of Y depends on X according to some theoretical model, and X and Y both have errors with arbitrary…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-20 A. F. Heavens , M. Seikel , B. D. Nord , M. Aich , Y. Bouffanais , B. A. Bassett , M. P. Hobson

We propose the generalised Fisher information or the one-parameter extended class of the Fisher information for the case of one random variable. This new form of the Fisher information is obtained from the intriguing connection between the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-08-25 Worachet Bukaew , Sikarin Yoo-Kong

Famously, the quantum Fisher information -- the maximum Fisher information over all physical measurements -- is additive for independent copies of a system and the optimal measurement acts locally. We are left to wonder: does the same hold…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Javier Navarro , Simon Morelli , Mikel Sanz , Mohammad Mehboudi

Quantum generalizations of the Fisher information are important in quantum information science, with applications in high energy and condensed matter physics and in quantum estimation theory, machine learning, and optimization. One can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Mark M. Wilde

A relationship between the Fisher information and the characteristic function is established with the help of two inequalities. A necessary and sufficient condition for equality is found. These results are used to determine the asymptotic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-07-12 Cihan Tepedelenlioglu , Mahesh K. Banavar , Andreas Spanias

We study the sample variance of the matter power spectrum for the standard Lambda Cold Dark Matter universe. We use a total of 5000 cosmological N-body simulations to study in detail the distribution of best-fit cosmological parameters and…

Recently, several studies proposed non-linear transformations, such as a logarithmic or Gaussianization transformation, as efficient tools to recapture information about the (Gaussian) initial conditions. During non-linear evolution, part…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Julien Carron , Istvan Szapudi

Van Trees inequality, also known as the Bayesian Cram\'er-Rao lower bound, is a powerful tool for establishing lower bounds for minimax estimation through Fisher information. It easily adapts to different statistical models and often yields…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Wei-Ning Chen , Ayfer Özgür

The Fisher information matrix (FIM) plays an important role in the analysis of parameter inference and system design problems. In a number of cases, however, the statistical data distribution and its associated information matrix are either…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-11-24 Dave Zachariah , Petre Stoica

In this paper, we analyze the impact of compressed sensing with complex random matrices on Fisher information and the Cram\'{e}r-Rao Bound (CRB) for estimating unknown parameters in the mean value function of a complex multivariate normal…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Pooria Pakrooh , Ali Pezeshki , Louis L. Scharf , Douglas Cochran , Stephen D. Howard

Starting with the relative entropy based on a previously proposed entropy function $S_q[p]=\int dx p(x)(-\ln p(x))^q$, we find the corresponding Fisher's information measure. After function redefinition we then maximize the Fisher…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Marcelo R. Ubriaco

We present a new method for proving sharp local propagation of chaos in Fisher Information for particles with smooth interaction and drift. We rely on a new Lemma computing the Fisher Information of two diffusion processes with smooth…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Jules Grass , Christophe Poquet , Arnaud Guillin

The Fisher Information matrix is a widely used measure for applications ranging from statistical inference, information geometry, experiment design, to the study of criticality in biological systems. Yet there is no commonly accepted…

Computation · Statistics 2016-02-17 Omri Har Shemesh , Rick Quax , Borja Miñano , Alfons G. Hoekstra , Peter M. A. Sloot

A common approach to analyzing categorical correlated time series data is to fit a generalized linear model (GLM) with past data as covariate inputs. There remain challenges to conducting inference for short time series length. By treating…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-10-23 Xu Gao , Hernando Ombao , Daniel Gillen

Gaussian graphical models with sparsity in the inverse covariance matrix are of significant interest in many modern applications. For the problem of recovering the graphical structure, information criteria provide useful optimization…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-12-01 Rina Foygel , Mathias Drton

Gravitational-wave astronomers often wish to characterize the expected parameter-estimation accuracy of future observations. The Fisher matrix provides a lower bound on the spread of the maximum-likelihood estimator across noise…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-11-08 Michele Vallisneri

The Fisher information matrix is a quantity of fundamental importance for information geometry and asymptotic statistics. In practice, it is widely used to quickly estimate the expected information available in a data set and guide…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-06-06 William R. Coulton , Benjamin D. Wandelt