"Wishart distribution" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: Wishart distributions [plural]
Etymology: Named in honour of Scottish mathematician John Wishart, who formulated the distribution in 1928. Head templates: {{en-noun}} Wishart distribution (plural Wishart distributions)
  1. (statistics) 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. Wikipedia link: John Wishart, Wishart distribution Categories (topical): Statistics

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