A tutorial on Fisher information

DOI10.1016/j.jmp.2017.05.006zbMath1402.62318arXiv1705.01064MaRDI QIDQ1680996

Raoul P. P. P. Grasman, Eric‐Jan Wagenmakers, Alexander Ly, Maarten Marsman, Josine Verhagen

Publication date: 17 November 2017

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Psychology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.01064

zbMATH Keywords

confidence intervals; model selection; hypothesis testing; minimum description length; statistical modeling; model complexity; Jeffreys's prior

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62F15: Bayesian inference

62-02: Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to statistics

62P15: Applications of statistics to psychology

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