A POVM is informationally complete if its outcome probabilities determine every input density operator uniquely. Its effects must span the real space of Hermitian operators. For a qubit, normalization leaves at most independent probabilities from outcomes; an arbitrary Bloch vector has three real parameters, so one fixed informationally complete measurement requires at least four outcomes. Using several differently oriented binary measurements is a different experimental setting and can also perform quantum state tomography.
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