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Intuition for Fisher information metric

In statistical maniolds $S=\{p_\theta\}$,$\theta=(\theta_1,\dots,\theta_n)$, the Riemaanian metric usually defined is the Fisher information metric $$g_{ij}(\partial_i,\partial_j)=\int \partial_i(\log ...
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mutual information problem

Consider the following problem: What is $I(X;Y)$ where $X$ is the outcome of a roll of a fair 6-sided die and $Y$ is whether the outcome of THAT SAME ROLL was even or odd? Intuitively, I thought ...
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Multivariate Generalizations of the Mutual information

I'm interested in Multivariate generalizations of the Mutual information. So I'm just wondering if anyone can point me to a list of all such generalizations currently proposed. I've heard about the ...
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Does “50/50 chance of.. . ” convey information?

I distinctly remember the professor in the undergrad introductory systems & control course saying that "when weather forecasters say there's a 50% chance of precipitation, they are conveying no ...
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How do I measure the similarity of two bivariate time series?

Suppose I have two bivariate time series: $$ ts1 = [<a_1, b_1>, <a_2, b_2>, \cdots, <a_N, b_N>] $$ $$ ts2 = [<c_1, d_2>, <c_2, d_2>, \cdots, <c_N, d_N>] $$ Which ...
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metric in the Wasserstein space of gaussian measures

I am reading the paper "Wasserstein Geometry of Gaussian measures" by Asuka Takatsu (section 3 is of interest to me) and I have difficulties understanding how the metric is used. In particular, I am ...
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Empirical distribution vs. the true one: How fast $KL( \hat{P}_n || Q)$ converges to $KL( P || Q)$?

Let $X_1,X_2,\dots$ be i.i.d. samples drawn from a discrete space $\mathcal{X}$ according to probability distribution $P$, and denote the resulting empirical distribution based on n samples by ...
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p-lim inf definition (limit inferior in probability)

For an arbitrary sequence of real-valued random variables $\{Z_n\}_1^\infty$ , we define limit inferior in probability as follow : $$ p-\liminf_{n\to \infty} Z_n \equiv \sup \{ \beta|\lim_{n\to ...
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Mutual Information of Correlated Bivariate Uniform Distribution

We have correlated bivariate uniform distribution, where X and Y have a correlation coefficient $\rho$ and they uniformly distributed in the following rectangle. What is the mutual information of $X$ ...
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In what sense is the Jeffreys prior invariant?

I've been trying to understand the motivation for the use of the Jeffreys prior in Bayesian statistics. Most texts I've read online make some comment to the effect that the Jeffreys prior is ...
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How to match a discrete distribution to a continuous distribution in information theoretic sense?

Let $$ S \sim N(\mu, \sigma^2) $$ be a normally distributed random variable with known $\mu$ and $\sigma^2$. Suppose, we observe $$ X = \begin{cases} T & \text{if $S \ge 0$}, \\ -T & ...
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Types and Typical sequences

Joint types can often be given in terms of the type of x and a stochastic matrix \begin{equation} V:X\rightarrow Y \end{equation}such that $ P_{x,y}(a,b)=P_{x}(a)V(b|a)$ for every $a\in X$ , $b\in Y$. ...
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simulating a fair random process with an unfair one.

Let's say I have a stochastic process that outputs $1$ or $0$ with probability $p$ or $1-p$ respectively, $p\neq 1/2$. Let's assume this is a repeatable iid process. So I can generate $X_1,X_2\dots$ ...
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How to calculate/approximate expectation of function of a binomial random variable?

I am stuck at following problem in my research. Suppose that $M=m$ is a random variable with binomial distribution and parameters $n,p$. The constants $r$ and $\gamma$ are greater than zero. ...
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What is the relationship of $\mathcal{L}_1$ (total variation) distance to hypothesis testing?

Kullback-Leibler divergence (a.k.a. relative entropy) has a nice property in hypothesis testing: given some observed measurement $m\in \mathcal{Q}$, and two probability distributions $P_0$ and $P_1$ ...
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What is the relationship between the Boltzmann distribution and information theory?

I'm reading a paper on Boltzmann machines (a type of neural network in Machine Learning), and it mentions that "The Boltzmann distribution has some beautiful mathematical properties and it is ...
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Is it wrong to use Binary Vector data in Cosine Similarity?

I am doing Information Retrieval using Cosine Similarity. My data is binary vector. Since most of all reference I read is using non-binary vector (non-binary matrix) data, I am wondering if it is ...
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Relative Entropy given two non-equivalent sets

I am trying to calculate the relative entropy given two collections and have a question regarding some issues. Supposed we have two sets, $Real$ and $Calculated$, and their respective probability ...