Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

wishart distribution

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.46 in modern English

Syllables: wishart dis-tri-bu-tion
IPA

28

Scrabble Score

19

Letters

4

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Example Sentences

"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 distribution."
"The basic properties of Wishart distributions are studied in Section 7.3."
"Recall from Appendix B that the Wishart distribution W#95;d(#92;Sigma,n) is characterized by a positive definite matrix #92;Sigma and the degrees of freedom n."

Etymology

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

Inflected Forms

Wishart distributions (plural)

Questions

What does wishart distribution mean?: 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.
Where does wishart distribution come from?: Named in honour of Scottish mathematician John Wishart, who formulated the distribution in 1928.

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