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Statistics[Distributions][ChiSquare] - chi-square distribution

 Calling Sequence ChiSquare(nu) ChiSquareDistribution(nu)

Parameters

 nu - first parameter

Description

 • The chi-square distribution is a continuous probability distribution with probability density function given by:

$f\left(t\right)=\left\{\begin{array}{cc}0& t<0\\ \frac{{t}^{\frac{\mathrm{\nu }}{2}-1}{ⅇ}^{-\frac{t}{2}}}{{2}^{\frac{\mathrm{\nu }}{2}}\mathrm{\Gamma }\left(\frac{\mathrm{\nu }}{2}\right)}& \mathrm{otherwise}\end{array}\right\$

 subject to the following conditions:

$0<\mathrm{\nu }$

 • The ChiSquare variate with nu degrees of freedom is equivalent to the Gamma variate with scale $2$ and shape nu/2:  ChiSquare(nu) ~ Gamma(2,nu/2).
 • The ChiSquare variate is related to the FRatio variate by the formula FRatio(nu,omega) ~ (ChiSquare(nu)*omega)/(ChiSquare(omega)*nu)
 • The ChiSquare variate is related to the Normal variate and the StudentT variate by the formula StudentT(nu) ~ Normal(0,1)/sqrt(ChiSquare(nu)/nu)
 • Note that the ChiSquare command is inert and should be used in combination with the RandomVariable command.

Examples

 > $\mathrm{with}\left(\mathrm{Statistics}\right):$
 > $X:=\mathrm{RandomVariable}\left(\mathrm{ChiSquare}\left(\mathrm{ν}\right)\right):$
 > $\mathrm{PDF}\left(X,u\right)$
 ${{}\begin{array}{cc}{0}& {u}{<}{0}\\ \frac{{{u}}^{\frac{{1}}{{2}}{}{\mathrm{ν}}{-}{1}}{}{{ⅇ}}^{{-}\frac{{1}}{{2}}{}{u}}}{{{2}}^{\frac{{1}}{{2}}{}{\mathrm{ν}}}{}{\mathrm{Γ}}{}\left(\frac{{1}}{{2}}{}{\mathrm{ν}}\right)}& {\mathrm{otherwise}}\end{array}$ (1)
 > $\mathrm{PDF}\left(X,0.5\right)$
 $\frac{{0.7788007831}{}{{0.5}}^{{0.5000000000}{}{\mathrm{ν}}{-}{1.}}}{{{2.}}^{{0.5000000000}{}{\mathrm{ν}}}{}{\mathrm{Γ}}{}\left({0.5000000000}{}{\mathrm{ν}}\right)}$ (2)
 > $\mathrm{Mean}\left(X\right)$
 ${\mathrm{ν}}$ (3)
 > $\mathrm{Variance}\left(X\right)$
 ${2}{}{\mathrm{ν}}$ (4)