Fisher information

noun

Etymology

Named after the statistician Ronald Fisher.

Definitions

  1. A measure of the amount of information that an observable random variable X carries about…

    A measure of the amount of information that an observable random variable X carries about an unknown parameter θ of a distribution that models X. Formally, it is the variance of the score, or the expected value of the observed information.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Fisher information. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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