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In this paper, we analyze the finite sample complexity of stochastic system identification using modern tools from machine learning and statistics. An unknown discrete-time linear system evolves over time under Gaussian noise without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-22 Anastasios Tsiamis , George J. Pappas

The supremum of the standardized empirical process is a promising statistic for testing whether the distribution function $F$ of i.i.d. real random variables is either equal to a given distribution function $F_0$ (hypothesis) or $F \ge F_0$…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-07-19 Dietmar Ferger

For a known weak signal in additive white noise, the asymptotic performance of a locally optimum processor (LOP) is shown to be given by the Fisher information (FI) of a standardized even probability density function (PDF) of noise in three…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2011-11-28 Fabing Duan , Francois Chapeau-Blondeau , Derek Abbott

An information-theoretic development is given for the problem of compound Poisson approximation, which parallels earlier treatments for Gaussian and Poisson approximation. Let $P_{S_n}$ be the distribution of a sum $S_n=\Sumn Y_i$ of…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-06-05 A. D. Barbour , Oliver Johnson , Ioannis Kontoyiannis , Mokshay Madiman

Fisher's linear discriminant analysis (FLDA) is an important dimension reduction method in statistical pattern recognition. It has been shown that FLDA is asymptotically Bayes optimal under the homoscedastic Gaussian assumption. However,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-04-23 Wei Bian , Dacheng Tao

These notes review the theory of Fisher information, especially its use in kinetic theory of gases and plasmas. The recent monotonicity theorem by Guillen--Silvestre for the Landau--Coulomb equation is put in perspective and generalised.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Cédric Villani

We establish a precise connection between statistical significance in dependence testing and information-theoretic dependence as quantified by Shannon mutual information (MI). In the absence of prior distributional information, we consider…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Tsutomu Mori , Takashi Kawamura

We introduce a positive Hermitian operator, the Fisher operator, and use it to examine a measurement process incorporating unitary dynamics and complete measurements. We develop the idea of information complement, the minimization of which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-02-20 Gabriel A. Durkin

This paper studies convergence of empirical measures smoothed by a Gaussian kernel. Specifically, consider approximating $P\ast\mathcal{N}_\sigma$, for $\mathcal{N}_\sigma\triangleq\mathcal{N}(0,\sigma^2 \mathrm{I}_d)$, by…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-05-04 Ziv Goldfeld , Kristjan Greenewald , Yury Polyanskiy , Jonathan Weed

The purpose of this article is to develop a general parametric estimation theory that allows the derivation of the limit distribution of estimators in non-regular models where the true parameter value may lie on the boundary of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-28 Junichiro Yoshida , Nakahiro Yoshida

A family of skew information quantities is obtained, in which the well-known Wigner-Yanase skew information and quantum Fisher information stand as special cases. A transparent proof of convexity of the generalized skew information is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 Ma-Cheng Yang , Cong-Feng Qiao

We extend classical analytic tools for finite-state statistical models to allow zero probabilities. Using methods from algebraic statistics and information geometry, we develop a framework in which a smooth statistical model could hit the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Giovanni Pistone , Fabio Rapallo , Eva Riccomagno

The quantum Fisher information of a quantum state with respect to a certain parameter quantifies the sensitivity of the quantum state to changes in that parameter. Maximizing the quantum Fisher information is essential for achieving the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-06 Huining Zhang , X. X. Yi

In quantum resource theory (QRT), asymmetry recognized as a valid resource for the advantage of various quantum information processing. In this paper, we establish the resource theory of asymmetry using quantum Fisher information (QFI). By…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-07 R. Muthuganesan , V. K. Chandrasekar

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

We consider estimation and inference on average treatment effects under unconfoundedness conditional on the realizations of the treatment variable and covariates. Given nonparametric smoothness and/or shape restrictions on the conditional…

Applications · Statistics 2022-10-04 Timothy B. Armstrong , Michal Kolesár

The Fisher's information metric is introduced in order to find the real meaning of the probability distribution in classical and quantum systems described by Riemaniann non-degenerated superspaces. In particular, the physical r\^{o}le…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-12-04 Diego Julio Cirilo-Lombardo , Victor I. Afonso

Estimation of multiple parameters in an unknown Hamiltonian is investigated. We present upper and lower bounds on the time required to complete the estimation within a prescribed tolerance $\delta$. The lower bound is given on the basis of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-10 Naoto Kura , Masahito Ueda

Optimum designs for parameter estimation in generalized regression models are standardly based on the Fisher information matrix (cf. Atkinson et al (2014) for a recent exposition). The corresponding optimality criteria are related to the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-07-28 Katarína Burclová , Andrej Pázman

By the continuous mapping theorem, if a sequence of $d$-dimensional random vectors $(\mathbf{W}_n)_{n\geq1}$ converges in distribution to a multivariate normal random variable $\Sigma^{1/2}\mathbf{Z}$, then the sequence of random variables…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-03-18 Robert E. Gaunt