Estimator of The Multivariate Normal Distribution
The Wishart distribution is the sampling distribution of the maximum-likelihood estimator (MLE) of the covariance matrix of a multivariate normal distribution with mean zero. A derivation of the MLE uses the spectral theorem.
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