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When you speak of having information, it implies that you know something about a particular object or topic. In statistics and psychometrics, the term information conveys a similar, but somewhat more technical, meaning. The statistical meaning of information is credited to Sir R.A. Fisher, who defined information as the reciprocal of the variance with which a parameter could be estimated.
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Baker, F.B., Kim, SH. (2017). The Information Function. In: The Basics of Item Response Theory Using R. Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54205-8_6
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