Dynamics of the Fisher Information Metric

Abstract

We present a method to generate probability distributions that correspond to metrics obeying partial differential equations generated by extremizing a functional $J[g^{\mu \nu }({\theta }^i)]$, where $g^{\mu \nu }({\theta }^i)$ is the Fisher metric. We postulate that this functional of the dynamical variable $g^{\mu \nu }({\theta }^i)$ is stationary with respect to small variations of these variables. Our approach enables a dynamical approach to Fisher information metric. It allows to impose symmetries on a statistical system in a systematic way. This work is mainly motivated by the entropy approach to nonmonotonic reasoning.

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