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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

The Fisher information matrix (FM) plays an important role in forecasts and inferences in many areas of physics. While giving fast parameter estimation with the Gaussian likelihood approximation in the parameter space, the FM can only give…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-22 Ziming Wang , Chang Liu , Junjie Zhao , Lijing Shao

The Fisher information matrix is used widely in astronomy (and presumably other fields) to forecast the precision of future experiments while they are still in the design phase. Although many sources describe the mathematics of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-14 David Wittman

The planning and design of future experiments rely heavily on forecasting to assess the potential scientific value provided by a hypothetical set of measurements. The Fisher information matrix, due to its convenient properties and low…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-10 Joseph Ryan , Brandon Stevenson , Cynthia Trendafilova , Joel Meyers

We present the new method DALI (Derivative Approximation for LIkelihoods) for reconstructing and forecasting posteriors. DALI extends the Fisher Matrix formalism but allows for a much wider range of posterior shapes. While the Fisher Matrix…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-10 Elena Sellentin , Miguel Quartin , Luca Amendola

In many statistical applications that concern mathematical psychologists, the concept of Fisher information plays an important role. In this tutorial we clarify the concept of Fisher information as it manifests itself across three different…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-18 Alexander Ly , Maarten Marsman , Josine Verhagen , Raoul Grasman , Eric-Jan Wagenmakers

The Fisher-matrix formalism is used routinely in the literature on gravitational-wave detection to characterize the parameter-estimation performance of gravitational-wave measurements, given parametrized models of the waveforms, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Michele Vallisneri

Fisher's criterion is a widely used tool in machine learning for feature selection. For large search spaces, Fisher's criterion can provide a scalable solution to select features. A challenging limitation of Fisher's criterion, however, is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Ibrahim Alsolami , Tomoki Fukai

The Fisher information matrix can be used to characterize the local geometry of the parameter space of neural networks. It elucidates insightful theories and useful tools to understand and optimize neural networks. Given its high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Alexander Soen , Ke Sun

Current experimental design techniques for dynamical systems often only incorporate measurement noise, while dynamical systems also involve process noise. To construct experimental designs we need to quantify their information content. The…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-24 Arno Strouwen , Bart M. Nicolaï , Peter Goos

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

Fisher forecasts are a common tool in cosmology with applications ranging from survey planning to the development of new cosmological probes. While frequently adopted, they are subject to numerical instabilities that need to be carefully…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-15 Naren Bhandari , C. Danielle Leonard , Markus Michael Rau , Rachel Mandelbaum

Basic general properties are considered for the Fisher-type information involving higher order derivatives. They are used to explore various properties of probability densities and to derive Stam-type inequalities.

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Sergey G. Bobkov

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

This paper is a strongly geometrical approach to the Fisher distance, which is a measure of dissimilarity between two probability distribution functions. The Fisher distance, as well as other divergence measures, are also used in many…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-01-13 Sueli I. R. Costa , Sandra A. Santos , João E. Strapasson

Fisher developed his geometric model to support the micro-mutationalism hypothesis which claims that small mutations are more likely to be beneficial and therefore to contribute to evolution and adaptation. While others have provided a…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2015-12-02 Yoav Ram , Lilach Hadany

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

The Fisher matrix approach (Fisher 1935) allows one to calculate in advance how well a given experiment will be able to estimate model parameters, and has been an invaluable tool in experimental design. In the same spirit, we present here a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-22 A. F. Heavens , T. D. Kitching , L. Verde

Upcoming cosmological surveys will achieve increasingly precise constraints in cosmological parameter estimation. To guarantee the robustness of cosmological analyses, it is essential to account for and model systematic effects that can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-20 Biancamaria Sersante , Christos Georgiou , Nora Elisa Chisari

We propose a Bayesian framework of Gaussian process in order to extend Fisher's discriminant to classify functional data such as spectra and images. The probability structure for our extended Fisher's discriminant is explicitly formulated,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-12-10 Yao-Hsiang Yang , Lu-Hung Chen , Chieh-Chih Wang , Chu-Song Chen
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