Noncentral Chi-squared Distribution

Noncentral Chi-squared Distribution

In probability theory and statistics, the noncentral chi-squared or noncentral distribution is a generalization of the chi-squared distribution. This distribution often arises in the power analysis of statistical tests in which the null distribution is (perhaps asymptotically) a chi-squared distribution; important examples of such tests are the likelihood ratio tests.

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