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The Fisher information matrix plays a role in an inequality like the isoperimetric inequality. [29] Of all probability distributions with a given entropy, the one whose Fisher information matrix has the smallest trace is the Gaussian distribution. This is like how, of all bounded sets with a given volume, the sphere has the smallest surface area.
In information geometry, the Fisher information metric [1] is a particular Riemannian metric which can be defined on a smooth statistical manifold, i.e., a smooth manifold whose points are probability distributions. It can be used to calculate the distance between probability distributions. [2] The metric is interesting in several aspects.
In econometrics, the information matrix test is used to determine whether a regression model is misspecified.The test was developed by Halbert White, [1] who observed that in a correctly specified model and under standard regularity assumptions, the Fisher information matrix can be expressed in either of two ways: as the outer product of the gradient, or as a function of the Hessian matrix of ...
In Bayesian statistics, the Jeffreys prior is a non-informative prior distribution for a parameter space.Named after Sir Harold Jeffreys, [1] its density function is proportional to the square root of the determinant of the Fisher information matrix:
The family of all normal distributions can be thought of as a 2-dimensional parametric space parametrized by the expected value μ and the variance σ 2 ≥ 0. Equipped with the Riemannian metric given by the Fisher information matrix, it is a statistical manifold with a geometry modeled on hyperbolic space.
In information theory, the principle of minimum Fisher information (MFI) is a variational principle which, when applied with the proper constraints needed to reproduce empirically known expectation values, determines the best probability distribution that characterizes the system. (See also Fisher information.)
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The latter is known as the Fisher information and is written (). Note that the Fisher information is not a function of any particular observation, as the random variable X {\displaystyle X} has been averaged out.