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A NOTE ON THE GEOMETRICAL PROPERTIES OF THE NORMAL DISTRIBUTION

  • Cho, Bong-Sik (Division of Mathematics and Information Statistics Research institute for basic sciences Wonkwang University)
  • Received : 2007.02.07
  • Accepted : 2007.03.28
  • Published : 2007.03.25
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Abstract

The Fisher information matrix plays a significant role in statistical inference in connection with estimation and properties of variance of estimators. In this paper, the parameter space of the normal distribution using its Fisher's matrix is defined. The Riemannian curvature and J-divergence to parameter space are calculated.

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