"Fisher information" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: Named after the statistician Ronald Fisher. Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} Fisher information (uncountable)
  1. (statistics) 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. Wikipedia link: Fisher information, Ronald Fisher Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Statistics

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