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ChiSquareDistribution
ChiSquareDistribution
[
]
represents a
distribution with
degrees of freedom.
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The probability density for value
x
in a
distribution is proportional to
for
, and is zero for
.
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For integer
, the
distribution with
degrees of freedom gives the distribution of sums of squares of
values sampled from a normal distribution.
ChiSquareDistribution
allows
to be any positive real number.
ChiSquareDistribution
can be used with such functions as
Mean
,
CDF
and
RandomReal
.
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The mean and variance of a
distribution:
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Probability density function:
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StudentTDistribution
FRatioDistribution
GammaDistribution
ChiDistribution
NoncentralChiSquareDistribution
FindFit
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