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This paper deals with Cram\'er-Rao inequalities in the context of nonextensive statistics and in estimation theory. It gives characterizations of generalized q-Gaussian distributions, and introduces generalized versions of Fisher…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-06-05 J. -F. Bercher

Complex frequency excitations, oscillating signals whose amplitude decreases exponentially in time, have recently been demonstrated to significantly increase the effective quality factor of mechanical resonators. In this work, we…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Wenbo Li , Raj Kumar Pal

Fine-tuning and naturalness, the sensitivity of low-energy observables to small changes in the fundamental parameters of a theory, are cornerstones of physics beyond the Standard Model. We propose a new measure of fine-tuning based on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-04 James Halverson , Thomas R. Harvey , Michael Nee

Fisher Information Matrix methods are commonly used in cosmology to estimate the accuracy that cosmological parameters can be measured with a given experiment, and to optimise the design of experiments. However, the standard approach…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 A. Kiessling , A. N. Taylor , A. F. Heavens

We have calculated the Tsallis entropy and Fisher information matrix (entropy) of spatially-correlated nonextensive systems, by using an analytic non-Gaussian distribution obtained by the maximum entropy method. Effects of the correlated…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hideo Hasegawa

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

Quantum Fisher information places the fundamental limit to the accuracy of estimating an unknown parameter. Here we shall provide the quantum Fisher information an operational meaning: a mixed state can be so prepared that a given…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-22 Sixia Yu

The recent advent of noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices, especially near-term quantum computers, has sparked extensive research efforts concerned with their possible applications. At the forefront of the considered approaches are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Johannes Jakob Meyer

Fisher information is a measure of the best precision with which a parameter can be estimated from statistical data. It can also be defined for a continuous random variable without reference to any parameters, in which case it has a…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-03-22 S. Prasad , N. C. Menicucci

Quantum Fisher information, as an intrinsic quantity for quantum states, is a central concept in quantum detection and estimation. When quantum measurements are performed on quantum states, classical probability distributions arise, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-04 Xiao-Ming Lu , Shunlong Luo , C. H. Oh

The Fisher information approximation (FIA) is an implementation of the minimum description length principle for model selection. Unlike information criteria such as AIC or BIC, it has the advantage of taking the functional form of a model…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-08-02 Daniel W. Heck , Morten Moshagen , Edgar Erdfelder

Fisher information is a lower bound on the uncertainty in the statistical estimation of classical and quantum mechanical parameters. While some deterministic dynamical systems are not subject to random fluctuations, they do still have a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-10-06 Mohamed Sahbani , Swetamber Das , Jason R. Green

The selection of optimal designs for generalized linear mixed models is complicated by the fact that the Fisher information matrix, on which most optimality criteria depend, is computationally expensive to evaluate. Our focus is on the…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-09-22 Timothy W. Waite , David C. Woods

With the advance in computational resources, Bayesian inference is increasingly becoming the standard tool of practise in GW astronomy. However, algorithms such as Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) require a large number of iterations to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-04 Edward K. Porter

In the realm of deep learning, the Fisher information matrix (FIM) gives novel insights and useful tools to characterize the loss landscape, perform second-order optimization, and build geometric learning theories. The exact FIM is either…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Alexander Soen , Ke Sun

This paper studies the asymptotic behavior of the Fisher information for a Levy process discretely sampled at an increasing frequency. We show that it is possible to distinguish not only the continuous part of the process from its jumps…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yacine Ait-Sahalia , Jean Jacod

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

In this paper, we first establish general bounds on the Fisher information distance to the class of normal distributions of Malliavin differentiable random variables. We then study the rate of Fisher information convergence in the central…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-08-20 Nguyen Tien Dung , Nguyen Thu Hang

We derive a general upper bound to mutual information in terms of the Fisher information. The bound may be further used to derive a lower bound for the Bayesian quadratic cost. These two provide alternatives to other inequalities in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-16 Wojciech Górecki , Xi Lu , Chiara Macchiavello , Lorenzo Maccone

Fisher information and Shannon entropy are fundamental tools for understanding and analyzing dynamical systems from complementary perspectives. They can characterize unknown parameters by quantifying the information contained in variables,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Yuxuan Bao , J. Nathan Kutz