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FW: Re: Wishart Distribution

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg45551] FW: [mg45531] Re: Wishart Distribution
• From: David.Cousens at csiro.au
• Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 04:04:04 -0500 (EST)
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

The following code works

Regards

David Cousens

CSIRO Exploration and Mining

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Abbott [mailto:paul at physics.uwa.edu.au] 
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
Subject: [mg45551] [mg45531] Re: Wishart Distribution

 

In article <bt5ohv$3al$1 at smc.vnet.net>,

 "Bruce W. Colletti" <bcolletti at compuserve.com> wrote:

 

> Am running Mathematica 5.0 under WinXP Home, a want to generate one =

> random variable from a Wishart distribution.

> 

> The code:

> 

> Needs["Statistics`"];

> Random[WishartDistribution[{{1,0}, {0,1}}, 4]

This is missing a closing ]

> returns the error "non-rectangular tensor encountered."
> What am I doing wrong?  

Nothing else that I can see. I think that it is a bug.

Cheers,

Paul

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