Mutual Information, Fisher Information, and Population Coding Export

@misc{citeulike:566862, abstract = {In the context of parameter estimation and model selection, it is only quite recently that a direct link between the Fisher information and information theoretic quantities has been exhibited. We give an interpretation of this link within the standard framework of information theory. We show that in the context of population coding, the mutual information between the activity of a large array of neurons and a stimulus to which the neurons are tuned is naturally related to the Fisher...}, author = {Brunel, Nicolas and Nadal, Jean P.}, citeulike-article-id = {566862}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.52.9083}, keywords = {fisherinformation, informationtheory}, posted-at = {2006-03-28 16:48:50}, priority = {2}, title = {Mutual Information, Fisher Information, and Population Coding}, url = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.52.9083} }

TY - GEN ID - citeulike:566862 L3 - citeulike-article-id:566862 N2 - In the context of parameter estimation and model selection, it is only quite recently that a direct link between the Fisher information and information theoretic quantities has been exhibited. We give an interpretation of this link within the standard framework of information theory. We show that in the context of population coding, the mutual information between the activity of a large array of neurons and a stimulus to which the neurons are tuned is naturally related to the Fisher... TI - Mutual Information, Fisher Information, and Population Coding KW - fisherinformation KW - informationtheory AU - Brunel, Nicolas AU - Nadal, Jean UR - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.52.9083 ER -