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The Fisher matrix formalism has in recent times become the standard method for predicting the precision with which various cosmological parameters can be extracted from future data. This approach is fast, and generally returns accurate…

The importance of the quantum Fisher information metric is testified by the number of applications that this has in very different fields, ranging from hypothesis testing to metrology, passing through thermodynamics. Still, from the rich…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-30 Matteo Scandi , Paolo Abiuso , Jacopo Surace , Dario De Santis

We study the existence of the maximal quantum Fisher information matrix in multi-parameter quantum estimation, which bounds the ultimate precision limit. We show that when the maximal quantum Fisher information matrix exists, it can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Yu Chen , Haidong Yuan

Fisher-matrix methods are widely used to predict how accurately parameters can be estimated. Being computationally efficient, this approach is prompted by the large number of signals simulated in forecast studies for future…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-14 Ulyana Dupletsa , Jan Harms , Ken K. Y. Ng , Jacopo Tissino , Filippo Santoliquido , Andrea Cozzumbo

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

The Fisher information matrix provides a way to measure the amount of information given observed data based on parameters of interest. Many applications of the FIM exist in statistical modeling, system identification, and parameter…

Computation · Statistics 2021-04-16 Xuan Wu

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

Spectroscopy detected in the time domain entails many techniques, such as FTIR, pump-probe, FT-Raman, and 2DES, and applications, such as molecule characterization, excited state dynamics studies, or spectra classifications. Surprisingly,…

Optics · Physics 2024-05-21 Luca Bolzonello , Niek F van Hulst , Andreas Jakobsson

This is the Users' Manual for the Fisher Matrix software Fisher4Cast and covers installation, GUI help, command line basics, code flow and data structure, as well as cosmological applications and extensions. Finally we discuss the extensive…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-12 Bruce A. Bassett , Yabebal Fantaye , Renée Hlozek , Jacques Kotze

Structured optical beams possess rich spatial features that are commonly characterized using entropic measures of field complexity. However, such measures do not directly quantify the operational usefulness of optical structure for…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-30 J. Sumaya-Martinez , J. Mulia-Rodriguez

We derive a Fisher matrix for the parameters characterising a population of gravitational-wave events. This provides a guide to the precision with which population parameters can be estimated with multiple observations, which becomes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-14 Jonathan R. Gair , Andrea Antonelli , Riccardo Barbieri

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

The Bayesian decision-theoretic approach to design of experiments involves specifying a design (values of all controllable variables) to maximise the expected utility function (expectation with respect to the distribution of responses and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-09-24 Antony M. Overstall

We derive a new variational principle for the quantum Fisher information leading to a simple iterative alternating algorithm, the convergence of which is proved. The case of a fixed measurement, i.e. the classical Fisher information, is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-06 Katarzyna Macieszczak

The familiar tools of Fourier analysis and Fisher matrices are applied to derive the uncertainties on photometric, astrometric, and weak-lensing measurements of stars and galaxies in real astronomical images. Many effects or functions that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gary Bernstein

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

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

The Fisher information matrix (FIM) has long been of interest in statistics and other areas. It is widely used to measure the amount of information and calculate the lower bound for the variance for maximum likelihood estimation (MLE). In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-19 Shenghan Guo

The efficacy of mathematical models heavily depends on the quality of the training data, yet collecting sufficient data is often expensive and challenging. Many modeling applications require inferring parameters only as a means to predict…

Starting from the Fisher matrix for counts in cells, I derive the full Fisher matrix for surveys of multiple tracers of large-scale structure. The key assumption is that the inverse of the covariance of the galaxy counts is given by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-28 L. Raul Abramo