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Skew-symmetric densities recently received much attention in the literature, giving rise to increasingly general families of univariate and multivariate skewed densities. Most of those families, however, suffer from the inferential drawback…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-07-03 Marc Hallin , Christophe Ley

We review the introduction of likelihood functions and Fisher information in classical estimation theory, and we show how they can be defined in a very similar manner within quantum measurement theory. We show that the stochastic master…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-03 Søren Gammelmark , Klaus Mølmer

We study the problem of parameter estimation in time series stemming from general stochastic processes, where the outcomes may exhibit arbitrary temporal correlations. In particular, we address the question of how much Fisher information is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-09-06 Joseph A. Smiga , Marco Radaelli , Felix C. Binder , Gabriel T. Landi

Quantization for probability distributions concerns the best approximation of a $d$-dimensional probability distribution $P$ by a discrete probability with a given number $n$ of supporting points. In this paper, we have considered a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-05-17 Lakshmi Roychowdhury , Mrinal Kanti Roychowdhury

We consider torsion in parameter manifolds that arises via conformal transformations of the Fisher information metric, and define it for information geometry of a wide class of physical systems. The torsion can be used to differentiate…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Kunal Pal , Kuntal Pal , Tapobrata Sarkar

A finite dimensional-system whose physics is governed by a Gaussian distribution can be regarded as a subsystem of an infinite dimensional-underlying system described by a uniform distribution on the (infinite dimensional) sphere. In turn,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-09-29 C. Vignat , A. Plastino

For any continuous probability measure $\mu$ on ${\mathbb R}$ we construct an IFS with probabilities having $\mu$ as its unique measure-attractor.

Probability · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Örjan Stenflo

In this note, we define a Gaussian probability distribution over matrices. We prove some useful properties of this distribution, namely, the fact that marginalization, conditioning, and affine transformations preserve the matrix Gaussian…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-06-22 Shane Barratt

We consider the processing of statistical samples $X\sim P_\theta$ by a channel $p(y|x)$, and characterize how the statistical information from the samples for estimating the parameter $\theta\in\mathbb{R}^d$ can scale with the mutual…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Leighton Pate Barnes , Ayfer Ozgur

The problem of determining the joint probability distributions for correlated random variables with pre-specified marginals is considered. When the joint distribution satisfying all the required conditions is not unique, the "most unbiased"…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-12 Hernán Larralde

Statistical inference more often than not involves models which are non-linear in the parameters thus leading to non-Gaussian posteriors. Many computational and analytical tools exist that can deal with non-Gaussian distributions, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-20 Eileen Giesel , Robert Reischke , Björn Malte Schäfer , Dominic Chia

This paper proposes representing finite-energy signals observed within a given bandwidth as parameters of a probability distribution and employing the information-geometric framework to compute the Fisher-Rao distance between these signals,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Franck Florin

Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) have emerged as a powerful tool for solving differential equations and modeling physical systems by embedding physical laws into the learning process. However, rigorously quantifying how well a PINN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Josafat Ribeiro Leal Filho , Antônio Augusto Fröhlich

In this paper, we review Fisher information matrices properties in weighted version and discuss inequalities/bounds on it by using reduced weight functions. In particular, an extended form of the Fisher information inequality previously…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-01 Mark Kelbert , Yuri Suhov , Salimeh Yasaei Sekeh

In this paper we develop a theory of general selection systems with discrete time and explore the evolution of selection systems, in particular, inhomogeneous populations. We show that the knowledge of the initial distribution of the…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Georgy P. Karev

We theoretically investigate parameter quantum estimation in quantum chaotic systems. Our analysis is based on an effective description of non-integrable quantum systems in terms of a random matrix Hamiltonian. Based on this approach we…

Theoretical studies in gravitational wave astronomy often require the calculation of Fisher Information Matrices and Likelihood functions, which in a direct approach entail the costly step of computing gravitational waveforms. Here I…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-07 Neil J. Cornish

Given a pure state vector |x> and a density matrix rho, the function p(x|rho)=<x|rho|x> defines a probability density on the space of pure states parameterised by density matrices. The associated Fisher-Rao information measure is used to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-03 Dorje C. Brody

A general piecewise (including pointwise) probability distribution with space-saving notation and its hierarchical particular cases are considered. The explicit closed-form normalization, expectation, and variance formulas along with the…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-02-01 Lev Gelimson

Fisher information measures a disorder system, which is specified by a corresponding probability, the likelihood. In this article, we provide a bridge to connect classical and quantum mechanics by using Fisher information. Following the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-30 Tzu-Chao Hung