Last modified: December 2024

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AHELP for CIAO 4.17 Sherpa

multit_pdf

Context: utilities

Synopsis

The PDF of a multivariate student-t distribution.

Syntax

multit_pdf(x, mu, sigma, dof)

Description

Returns the probability density function (PDF) of a multivariate student-t [1] distribution.


PARAMETERS

The parameters for this function are:

Parameter Type information Definition
x array An array of length k.
mu array An array of length k.
sigma array A matrix of size (k,k). It must be symmetric and positive-definite.
dof int

References


Bugs

See the bugs pages on the Sherpa website for an up-to-date listing of known bugs.

See Also

utilities
multinormal_pdf