The Geometry of Chi-Square Degrees of Freedom

MaRDI QIDQ6436998zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors James Bernhard

Publication date 17 May 2023

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability distributions: general theory (60E05) Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions (62E10)

Abstract: In this paper, we state and prove a simple geometric interpretation of the degrees of freedom of a chi-square distribution. The general geometric idea goes back at least to Fisher in the 1920s, but the exact result does not appear to have been explicitly stated or proved prior to this paper.

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