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The Standard Normal Distribution Has Finite Fisher Information, Score Minus the Identity, and Fisher Information One

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The standard normal distribution on the real line is the measure with density exp(-x^2/2)/c with respect to Lebesgue measure, a positive continuously differentiable density whose derivative is -x times the density; it has second moment one, finite Fisher information, score equal to minus the identity map and Fisher information equal to one.

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In the setting of Square-Integrable Vector Fields Against a Probability Measure on Euclidean Space, and Test Functions: Standing Notation, in dimension d=1d=1, with the real line identified with R1\mathbb{R}^{1} as in One-Dimensional Test Functions: Scalars, Derivatives, and the Difference Quotient of the Derivative, whose reading of differentiability, of ff' and of continuity, and whose identification of x2\lVert x\rVert^{2} with x2x^{2}, are in force. Let λ\lambda be Lebesgue measure λ1\lambda_{1} on B(R)\mathcal{B}(\mathbb{R}), which is the Lebesgue measure of the real line by Lebesgue Measure on Rn\mathbb{R}^n. Let NP(R)N\in\mathcal{P}(\mathbb{R}) be the standard normal distribution, with the function g(x)=exp(x2/2)g(x)=\exp(-x^{2}/2) and the positive real number c=Rgdλc=\int_{\mathbb{R}}g\,d\lambda as there, and define φ:RR\varphi:\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R} by φ(x)=c1g(x)\varphi(x)=c^{-1}g(x). Class C1C^{1} on R=R1\mathbb{R}=\mathbb{R}^{1} and the partial derivative 1\partial_{1} are those of Differential Calculus and Convexity on Euclidean Open Sets: Standing Notation §derivatives, R1\mathbb{R}^{1} being open by claim 1 of Euclidean Space is Open in Itself, and CkC^k Maps are Continuous. Let M2(N)M_{2}(N) be the second moment of NN, let id\mathrm{id} be the identity map of R\mathbb{R}, and, NN having finite second moment by claim 2, let finite Fisher information, the set P2I(R)\mathcal{P}_{2}^{\mathcal{I}}(\mathbb{R}), the score ξN\xi_{N} and the Fisher information I(N)\mathcal{I}(N) be as defined there.

1. (Density) The function φ\varphi is of class C1C^{1} on R\mathbb{R}, hence continuous and Borel, it is differentiable at every point of R\mathbb{R}, and for every xRx\in\mathbb{R}

φ(x)>0,φ(x)=1φ(x)=xφ(x);\varphi(x)>0,\qquad \varphi'(x)=\partial_{1}\varphi(x)=-x\,\varphi(x);

and NN is the measure with density φ\varphi with respect to λ\lambda, that is, N(B)=R1BφdλN(B)=\int_{\mathbb{R}}\mathbf{1}_{B}\,\varphi\,d\lambda for every BB(R)B\in\mathcal{B}(\mathbb{R}).

2. (Second moment) M2(N)=Rx2N(dx)=1M_{2}(N)=\int_{\mathbb{R}}x^{2}\,N(dx)=1; in particular NP2(R)N\in\mathcal{P}_{2}(\mathbb{R}).

3. (Score) NP2I(R)N\in\mathcal{P}_{2}^{\mathcal{I}}(\mathbb{R}), the score of NN is ξN=id\xi_{N}=-\mathrm{id}, and I(N)=1\mathcal{I}(N)=1.

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