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Mathematical theory of selection systems is developed for a wide class of dynamical models of inhomogeneous populations with discrete time. The Price equation and its particular case, the Fisher Fundamental theorem of natural selection…

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

Local information objectivity, that local, independent observers can infer the same information about a model upon exchange of independently acquired experimental data, is fundamental to science. It is mathematically encoded via Cencov's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-19 Per Berglund , Andrew Geraci , Tristan Hubsch , David Mattingly , Djordje Minic

In proofs of L_2-differentiability, Lebesgue densities of a central distribution are often assumed right from the beginning. Generalizing Theorem 4.2 of Huber[81], we show that in the class of smooth parametric group models these densities…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-05-07 Peter Ruckdeschel

Hypothesis testing is a fundamental issue in statistical inference and has been a crucial element in the development of information sciences. The Chernoff bound gives the minimal Bayesian error probability when discriminating two hypotheses…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Calsamiglia , R. Munoz-Tapia , Ll. Masanes , A. Acin , E. Bagan

Classical Fisher-information asymptotics describe the covariance of regular efficient estimators through the local quadratic approximation of the log-likelihood, and thus capture first-order geometry only. In curved models, including…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Malik Amir , Sourangshu Ghosh

We consider natural and general exponential families $(Q_m)_{m\in M}$ on $\mathbb{R}^d$ parametrized by the means. We study the submodels $(Q_{\theta m_1+(1-\theta)m_2})_{\theta\in[0,1]}$ parametrized by a segment in the means domain,…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-02-07 Piotr Graczyk , Salha Mamane

Exponential families form the backbone of modern statistics and machine learning, but textbooks seldom derive them from first principles in an accessible way. Although minimal sufficiency and the principle of maximum entropy, originating in…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-27 Korbinian Strimmer

An Edgeworth-type expansion is established for the relative Fisher information distance to the class of normal distributions of sums of i.i.d. random variables, satisfying moment conditions. The validity of the central limit theorem is…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-05-01 S. G. Bobkov , G. P. Chistyakov , F. Götze

Due to \v{C}encov's theorem, there exists a unique family of invariant symmetric $(0,2)$-tensor fields on the space of positive probability measures on a set of $n$-points indexed by $n\in \mathbb{N}$ under Markov embeddings. We deform…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-08-25 Hiroshi Matsuzoe , Asuka Takatsu

By the results of Furuhata--Inoguchi--Kobayashi [Inf. Geom. (2021)] and Kobayashi--Ohno [Osaka Math. J. (2025)], the Amari--Chentsov $\alpha$-connections on the space $\mathcal{N}$ of all $n$-variate normal distributions are uniquely…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-18 Hikozo Kobayashi , Takayuki Okuda

A generalized version of Chernoff's theorem has been obtained. Namely, the version of Chernoff's theorem for semigroups obtained in a paper by Smolyanov, Weizsaecker, and Wittich is generalized for a time-inhomogeneous case. The main…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-06-28 Evelina Shamarova

We introduce different notions of separation for families of Anosov representations. We show that, along a diverging sequence of such families, the critical exponent is asymptotic to a combinatorial invariant computable from the spectral…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Joaquín Lejtreger , Joaquín Lema

The Fisher metric on a manifold of probability distributions is usually treated as a metric on the tangent bundle. In this paper, we focus on the metric on the cotangent bundle induced from the Fisher metric with calling it the Fisher…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Hiroshi Nagaoka

We prove that for a large class of quantum Fisher information, a quantum channel is sufficient for a family of quantum states, i.e., the input states can be recovered from the output, if and only if the quantum Fisher information is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-07 Li Gao , Haojian Li , Iman Marvian , Cambyse Rouzé

The paper proves several limit theorems for linear eigenvalue statistics of overlapping Wigner and sample covariance matrices. It is shown that the covariance of the limiting multivariate Gaussian distribution is diagonalized by choosing…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-11-10 Vladislav Kargin

In this paper, we explicitly prove that statistical manifolds, related to exponential families and with flat structure connection have a Frobenius manifold structure. This latter object, at the interplay of beautiful interactions between…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-20 Noemie Combe , Philippe Combe , Hanna Nencka

We develop a family of infinite-dimensional Banach manifolds of measures on an abstract measurable space, employing charts that are "balanced" between the density and log-density functions. The manifolds, $(\tilde{M}_{\lambda},\lambda\in…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-02-10 Nigel J. Newton

The Shannon entropy, one of the cornerstones of information theory, is widely used in physics, particularly in statistical mechanics. Yet its characterization and connection to physics remain vague, leaving ample room for misconceptions and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-07-28 Gabriele Carcassi , Christine A. Aidala , Julian Barbour

New inequalities are proved for the variance of the Pitman estimators (minimum variance equivariant estimators) of \theta constructed from samples of fixed size from populations F(x-\theta). The inequalities are closely related to the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-07-11 Abram M. Kagan , Tinghui Yu , Andrew Barron , Mokshay Madiman

Informational dependence between statistical or quantum subsystems can be described with Fisher matrix or Fubini-Study metric obtained from variations of the sample/configuration space coordinates. Using these non-covariant objects as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-30 Vitaly Vanchurin