fisher information

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What does fisher information mean?

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.

Where does fisher information come from?

Named after the statistician Ronald Fisher.

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