Fisher Information

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In the Fisher information, do we consider joint probability distribution. I have referred Thomas M. Cover's Elements of Information theory. The authors mention that -

$$FI(\theta) = E_{\theta}({\frac{\partial }{\partial \theta} {\ln f(X; \theta)})^2}$$

Does $f(X, \theta)$ refers to the joint probability distribution or the conditional probability distribution?