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The aim of the paper is to investigate possible Riemannian metrics on the space of density matrices of a finite-dimensional space. The authors show that Riemannian metrics have been studied on the set of probability measures from the point of view of decision theory, and remind that, up to a constant factor, the Fisher information was the only metric known to be monotone under stochastic transformation. The present paper deals with monotone metrics on the space of finite density matrices, mainly in the context of quantum mechanics arguments. Several concrete metrics are constructed and analyzed, many examples of monotone metrics in the probabilistic case are given, and a characterization of these metrics in terms of operator monotone functions is provided. Moreover, a radial extension to pure states (i.e. points in the unit sphere) is discussed. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0923.00020].