Meanings
nounconjugacy (countable and uncountable, plural conjugacies)
plural conjugacies
- countableuncountablemathematicsThe condition or state of being conjugate.
Because the gamma distribution is the conjugate prior for the precision parameter (#92;tau#61;1#47;#92;sigma²) of a univariate normal distribution, the Wishart distribution (as its multivariate generalization) extends conjugacy to the multivariate normal distribution.
2012 May 25, Steven W. Nydick, The Wishart and Inverse Wishart Distributions
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