Awni Hannun • 10/3/2021

An Introduction to Fisher Information

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This technical article explains Fisher Information, a key concept in statistics and data analysis. It describes how Fisher Information quantifies the amount of information that observed data samples contain about the unknown parameters of a probability distribution, using the Gaussian distribution as a primary example to illustrate the relationship between variance and estimation difficulty.

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