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The dynamics of a charged two-qubit system prepared initially in a maximum entangled state is discussed, where each qubit interacts independently with a dephasing channel. The Fisher information is used to estimate the channel and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-13 Hamada El-Shiekh Nour Zidan , Nasser Metwally

Point estimators may not exist, need not be unique, and their distributions are not parameter invariant. Generalized estimators provide distributions that are parameter invariant, unique, and exist when point estimates do not. Comparing…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-04 Paul W. Vos

Prior distributions elicited for modelling the natural fluctuations or the uncertainty on parameters of Bayesian fishery population models, can be chosen among a vast range of statistical laws. Since the statistical framework is defined by…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-10-12 Nicolas Bousquet

This paper presents a brief, semi-technical comparison of the essential features of the frequentist and Bayesian approaches to statistical inference, with several illustrative examples implemented in Python. The differences between…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Jake VanderPlas

The Fisher information matrix (FIM) is a foundational concept in statistical signal processing. The FIM depends on the probability distribution, assumed to belong to a smooth parametric family. Traditional approaches to estimating the FIM…

Computation · Statistics 2015-06-22 Visar Berisha , Alfred O. Hero

Especially when facing reliability data with limited information (e.g., a small number of failures), there are strong motivations for using Bayesian inference methods. These include the option to use information from physics-of-failure or…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-10-27 Qinglong Tian , Colin Lewis-Beck , Jarad Niemi , William Meeker

One of the most popular methods for continual learning with deep neural networks is Elastic Weight Consolidation (EWC), which involves computing the Fisher Information. The exact way in which the Fisher Information is computed is however…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Gido M. van de Ven

Many statistical models require an estimation of unknown (co)-variance parameter(s) in a model. The estimation usually obtained by maximizing a log-likelihood which involves log determinant terms. In principle, one requires the…

Computation · Statistics 2016-09-05 Shengxin Zhu , Tongxiang Gu , Xiaowen Xu , Zeyao Mo

Fisher Information is a key notion in the whole field of quantum metrology. It allows for a direct quantification of maximal achievable precision of estimation of parameters encoded in quantum states using the most general quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-25 Stanislaw Kurdzialek , Rafal Demkowicz-Dobrzanski

The minimum achievable statistical uncertainty in the estimation of physical parameters is determined by the quantum Fisher information. Its computation for noisy systems is still a challenging problem. Using a variational approach, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-21 B. M. Escher , L. Davidovich , N. Zagury , R. L. de Matos Filho

The problem how to approximately determine the absolute value of the Fisher information measure for a general parametric probabilistic system is considered. Having available the first and second moment of the system output in a parametric…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Manuel Stein , Amine Mezghani , Josef A. Nossek

In this paper, a new three-parameter lifetime distribution is introduced and many of its standard properties are discussed. These include shape of the probability density function, hazard rate function and its shape, quantile function,…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-08-21 Min Wang

Estimating the difference between two binomial proportions will be investigated, where Bayesian, frequentist and fiducial (BFF) methods will be considered. Three vague priors will be used, the Jeffreys prior, a divergence prior and the…

Applications · Statistics 2021-11-17 Lizanne Raubenheimer

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

Using information theory, we propose an estimation method for traits parameters in a Darwinian evolution model for species with on trait or multiple traits. We use the Fisher's information to obtain the errors on the estimation for one…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-11 Eddy Kwessi

Quantifying the influence of infinitesimal changes in training data on model performance is crucial for understanding and improving machine learning models. In this work, we reformulate this problem as a weighted empirical risk minimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Omri Lev , Ashia C. Wilson

Statistical inference as a formal scientific method to covert experience to knowledge has proven to be elusively difficult. While frequentist and Bayesian methodologies have been accepted in the contemporary era as two dominant schools of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-01-16 Chuanhai Liu , Ryan Martin

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

We prove two lower bounds for the complexity of non-log-concave sampling within the framework of Balasubramanian et al. (2022), who introduced the use of Fisher information (FI) bounds as a notion of approximate first-order stationarity in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-07 Sinho Chewi , Patrik Gerber , Holden Lee , Chen Lu

Training-free conditional diffusion models have received great attention in conditional image generation tasks. However, they require a computationally expensive conditional score estimator to let the intermediate results of each step in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Kaiyu Song , Hanjiang Lai