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The randomization by Wishart laws and the Fisher information

Abstract

Consider the centered Gaussian vector XX in Rn\R^n with covariance matrix $ \Sigma.$ Randomize Σ\Sigma such that $ \Sigma^{-1}$ has a Wishart distribution with shape parameter p>(n1)/2p>(n-1)/2 and mean pσ.p\sigma. We compute the density fp,σf_{p,\sigma} of XX as well as the Fisher information Ip(σ)I_p(\sigma) of the model (fp,σ)(f_{p,\sigma} ) when $\sigma $ is the parameter. For using the Cram\ér-Rao inequality, we also compute the inverse of Ip(σ)I_p(\sigma). The important point of this note is the fact that this inverse is a linear combination of two simple operators on the space of symmetric matrices, namely (σ)(s)=σsσ\P(\sigma)(s)=\sigma s \sigma and (σσ)(s)=σtrace(σs)(\sigma\otimes \sigma)(s)=\sigma \, \mathrm{trace}(\sigma s). The Fisher information itself is a linear combination (σ1)\P(\sigma^{-1}) and σ1σ1.\sigma^{-1}\otimes \sigma^{-1}. Finally, by randomizing $\sigma $ itself, we make explicit the minoration of the second moments of an estimator of σ\sigma by the Van Trees inequality: here again, linear combinations of (u)\P(u) and uuu\otimes u appear in the results.

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