Fisher Information and Parameter Space

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I am reviewing Fisher information and saw that one of the requirements is that the distribution of the data, say $f(x|\theta)$, involves a parameter $\theta$ that is unknown but lies within a given open interval $\Omega$ of the real line.

Does the mean that if I have a distribution where the parameter is the natural numbers I cannot calculate Fisher's Information?

For example:

  • Hypergeometric distribution
  • Chi-square with $k$ unknown degrees of freedom

Clearly I can re-parameterize the Chi-square into a Gamma distribution and carry on. Still, I am curious if these examples violate this condition.