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Wishart distributions

Wishart distributions is the plural of Wishart distribution.

Meaning of Wishart distribution

Noun

Wishart distribution (plural Wishart distributions)

  1. A generalisation of the chi-square distribution to an arbitrary (integer) number of dimensions, or of the gamma distribution to a non-integer number of degrees of freedom.
    • The novelty of this work lies in its incorporation of a general conjugate prior distribution for the covariance matrix, namely a generalized inverted Wishart distribution (GIW). As its name suggests, this distribution, discovered by Brown et al. (1994b) generalizes the well-known inverted Wishart...2006, Nhu D. Le, James V. Zidek, Statistical Analysis of Environmental Space-Time Processes, Springer, page 142

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What is Wishart distributions the plural of?
Wishart distributions is the plural of Wishart distribution.

Words near Wishart distributions in the dictionary

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