English Explanatory Dictionary

Wishart distribution

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  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.

Word forms

Wishart distribution Wishart distributions

Etymology

Named in honour of Scottish mathematician John Wishart, who formulated the distribution in 1928.

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