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Asymptotic Methods in Statistical Inference - Statistics Centre

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20. Fisher <strong>in</strong>formation; <strong>in</strong>formation <strong>in</strong>equality<br />

176<br />

• Fisher Information. Under suitable conditions<br />

it turns out that the MLE ˆ (more generally,<br />

any consistent sequence of roots of the likelihood<br />

equation) satisfies<br />

√ ³<br />

<br />

³ˆ − 0´ → 0 −1 ( 0 )´<br />

,<br />

(20.1)<br />

where<br />

⎡Ã ! ⎤ 2<br />

() = ⎣ log ()<br />

⎦<br />

<br />

<br />

is the ‘Fisher <strong>in</strong>formation’ <strong>in</strong> one observation. In<br />

the follow<strong>in</strong>g we assume is the density; proofs<br />

for p.m.f.’s are identical. Suppose<br />

(C6) The function () isthreetimescont<strong>in</strong>uously<br />

differentiable w.r.t. , and the lhs of<br />

Z<br />

() =1<br />

can be differentiated thrice under the <strong>in</strong>tegral sign.<br />

See Lemma 7.3.1 for mild conditions ensur<strong>in</strong>g<br />

this.

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