Observed informationIn statistics, the observed information, or observed Fisher information, is the negative of the second derivative (the Hessian matrix) of the "log-likelihood" (the logarithm of the likelihood function). It is a sample-based version of the Fisher information. Suppose we observe random variables , independent and identically distributed with density f(X; θ), where θ is a (possibly unknown) vector.
Likelihood principleIn statistics, the likelihood principle is the proposition that, given a statistical model, all the evidence in a sample relevant to model parameters is contained in the likelihood function. A likelihood function arises from a probability density function considered as a function of its distributional parameterization argument.
Likelihoodist statisticsLikelihoodist statistics or likelihoodism is an approach to statistics that exclusively or primarily uses the likelihood function. Likelihoodist statistics is a more minor school than the main approaches of Bayesian statistics and frequentist statistics, but has some adherents and applications. The central idea of likelihoodism is the likelihood principle: data are interpreted as evidence, and the strength of the evidence is measured by the likelihood function.
Ronald Aylmer FisherSir Ronald Aylmer Fisher est un biologiste et statisticien britannique, né à East Finchley le et mort le . Richard Dawkins le considère comme et Anders Hald comme l'homme qui a – . Pour Bradley Efron, il est le statisticien le plus important du . Dans le domaine de la statistique, il introduit de nombreux concepts-clés tels que le maximum de vraisemblance, l'information de Fisher et l'analyse de la variance, les plans d'expériences ou encore la notion de statistique exhaustive.