English Explanatory Dictionary

Fisher information

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

Fisher information

Etymology

Named after the statistician Ronald Fisher.

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