A fisherman that uses a line baited with hooks

plural of line fisher

(statistics) A measure of the amount of information that an observable random variable X carries about an unknown parameter θ of a distribution that models X. Formally, it is the variance of the score, or the expected value of the observed information.

plural of whale fisher

plural of whale-fisher

One who hunts whales.

Alternative form of whale-fisher

The sea horse Hippocampus fisheri.

plural of Fisher's seahorse

A rare variant of Guillain-Barré syndrome, manifesting as a descending paralysis that proceeds in the reverse order and usually affects the eye muscles first.