Fisher information matrix¶

Measures the curvature of the expected negative log likelihood, hence it measures the stability of MLE.

First we define the observed information matrix at some point \(\hat{\theta}\)

\[ J(\hat{\theta}) \triangleq - \nabla^2_{\theta} \log p(D|\theta)|_{\hat{\theta}} \]

If we take the expected value of it we get the Fisher information matrix:

\[ I_N(\hat{\theta}) \triangleq E [J(\hat{\theta})] \]