Definition
Suppose X is an n × p matrix, each row of which is independently drawn from a p-variate normal distribution with zero mean:
Then the Wishart distribution is the probability distribution of the p×p random matrix
known as the scatter matrix. One indicates that S has that probability distribution by writing
The positive integer n is the number of degrees of freedom. Sometimes this is written W(V, p, n). For n ≥ p the matrix S is invertible with probability 1 if V is invertible.
If p = 1 and V = 1 then this distribution is a chi-squared distribution with n degrees of freedom.
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