For a differentiable scale family with finite positive Fisher information, the score is . Its squared expectation is a constant times , yielding the displayed Jeffreys prior. This is an improper prior on the entire positive half-line.
For the scale family, substitute in the expectation:
This depends on but not on . It holds whenever the expectation exists, including an extended expectation for nonnegative ; an undefined difference of two infinite integrals is not an expectation.
Assume the scale family has the differentiability needed for Fisher information, and the following constant is finite and positive. With , the score function is
Part (b) therefore gives
where is independent of . The Jeffreys prior for a scale parameter is consequently
The reciprocal-of-a-reciprocal in the TeX is a transcription error; the PDF has . The expected-Hessian information identity should not be applied indiscriminately to nonregular parameter-dependent supports.