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In this paper, we analyze the impact of compressed sensing with complex random matrices on Fisher information and the Cram\'{e}r-Rao Bound (CRB) for estimating unknown parameters in the mean value function of a complex multivariate normal…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Pooria Pakrooh , Ali Pezeshki , Louis L. Scharf , Douglas Cochran , Stephen D. Howard

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

In this brief paper we revisit the Fisher information content of cosmological power spectra or two-point functions of Gaussian fields in order to comment on the assumption of Gaussian estimators and the use of parameter-dependent covariance…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-19 Julien Carron

We formulate multiparameter quantum estimation in the parametric and semiparametric setting. While the Holevo Cram\'er-Rao bound (CRB) requires no substantial modifications in moving from the former to the latter, we generalize the Helstrom…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-10 Francesco Albarelli , Mankei Tsang , Animesh Datta

The Cram\'er-Rao bound serves as a crucial lower limit for the mean squared error of an estimator in frequentist parameter estimation. Paradoxically, it requires highly accurate prior knowledge of the estimated parameter for constructing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-21 Javier Navarro , Ricard Ravell Rodríguez , Mikel Sanz

This paper presents a Cramer-Rao bound (CRB) for the estimation of parameters confined to an arbitrary set. Unlike existing results that rely on equality or inequality constraints, manifold structures, or the nonsingularity of the Fisher…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Heedong Do , Angel Lozano

The Cram\'er-Rao bound (CRB), a well-known lower bound on the performance of any unbiased parameter estimator, has been used to study a wide variety of problems. However, to obtain the CRB, requires an analytical expression for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Hai Victor Habi , Hagit Messer , Yoram Bresler

This paper focuses on three contributions. First, a connection between the result, proposed by Stoica and Babu, and the recent information theoretic results, the worst additive noise lemma and the isoperimetric inequality for entropies, is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-12 Sangwoo Park , Erchin Serpedin , Khalid Qaraqe

The Bayesian Cram\'er-Rao bound (CRB) provides a lower bound on the mean square error of any Bayesian estimator under mild regularity conditions. It can be used to benchmark the performance of statistical estimators, and provides a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-09 Evan Scope Crafts , Xianyang Zhang , Bo Zhao

Bounding the optimal precision in parameter estimation tasks is of central importance for technological applications. In the regime of a small number of measurements, or that of low signal-to-noise ratios, the meaning of common frequentist…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-23 Valentin Gebhart , Manuel Gessner , Augusto Smerzi

The goal of this paper is to characterize the best achievable performance for the problem of estimating an unknown parameter having a sparse representation. Specifically, we consider the setting in which a sparsely representable…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Zvika Ben-Haim , Yonina C. Eldar

In this communication, we describe some interrelations between generalized $q$-entropies and a generalized version of Fisher information. In information theory, the de Bruijn identity links the Fisher information and the derivative of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-28 Jean-François Bercher

In some estimation problems, not all the parameters can be identified, which results in singularity of the Fisher Information Matrix (FIM). The Cram\'er-Rao Bound (CRB), which is the inverse of the FIM, is then not defined. To regularize…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Elisabeth de Carvalho , Dirk Slock

In the present work, we show how the generalized Cram\'er-Rao inequality for the estimation of a parameter, presented in a recent paper, can be extended to the mutidimensional case with general norms on $\mathbb{R}^{n}$, and to a wider…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-02-26 J. -F. Bercher

In quantum multi-parameter estimation, the precision of estimating unknown parameters is bounded by the Cramer-Rao bound (CRB), defined via the inverse of the Fisher information matrix (FIM). However, in certain scenarios such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Min Namkung , Changhyoup Lee , Hyang-Tag Lim

We propose a modified $\chi^{\beta}$-divergence, give some of its properties, and show that this leads to the definition of a generalized Fisher information. We give generalized Cram\'er-Rao inequalities, involving this Fisher information,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-28 Jean-François Bercher

It is proved that in a non-Bayesian parametric estimation problem, if the Fisher information matrix (FIM) is singular, unbiased estimators for the unknown parameter will not exist. Cramer-Rao bound (CRB), a popular tool to lower bound the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-28 Yen-Huan Li , Ping-Cheng Yeh

Many results in the quantum metrology literature use the Cram\'er-Rao bound and the Fisher information to compare different quantum estimation strategies. However, there are several assumptions that go into the construction of these tools,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-31 Jesús Rubio , Paul Knott , Jacob Dunningham

A lower bound is an important tool for predicting the performance that an estimator can achieve under a particular statistical model. Bayesian bounds are a kind of such bounds which not only utilizes the observation statistics but also…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-03-02 Shuo Tang , Gerald LaMountain , Tales Imbiriba , Pau Closas

This paper is mainly dedicated to an extension of the Slepian-Bangs formula to non-circular complex elliptical symmetric (NC-CES) distributions, which is derived from a new stochastic representation theorem. This formula includes the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-23 Habti Abeida , Jean-Pierre Delmas
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