| Notation | X ~ Wp(V, n) |
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| Parameters |
n > p − 1 degrees of freedom (real) V > 0 scale matrix (p × p pos. def) |
| Support | X(p × p) positive definite matrix |
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| Mean | |
| Mode | (n − p − 1)V for n ≥ p + 1 |
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| Entropy | see below |
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In statistics, the Wishart distribution is a generalization to multiple dimensions of the chi-squared distribution, or, in the case of non-integer degrees of freedom, of the gamma distribution. It is named in honor of John Wishart, who first formulated the distribution in 1928.