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Sharpened versions of the Fisher information inequality?

Let $X, Y$ be two independent random vectors in $\mathbb{R}^d$. In the paper [1, see ineq. (11)], the following convolution inequality is proven for the Fisher information: $$ I(X + Y) \preceq \Big(I(...
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Canonical information geometry for probability distributions on different parameter spaces

I am interested in a canonical information geometry on spaces of probability distributions containing distributions with different parameter spaces. Let me give some context and practical motivation ...
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Singular Fisher information matrix and existence of unbiased estimators

I'm doing some research into the Cramer-Rao bound for time of arrival localization and have come across a rather strange result: the FIM is singular, but there exists an unbiased estimator. My ...
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