Mutual Information, Fisher Information, and Population Coding
- 1 October 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by MIT Press in Neural Computation
- Vol. 10 (7) , 1731-1757
- https://doi.org/10.1162/089976698300017115
Abstract
In the context of parameter estimation and model selection, it is only quite recently that a direct link between the Fisher information and information-theoretic quantities has been exhibited. We g...Keywords
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