# Talk:Chi distribution

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## suggestion for plot

Might I suggest whoever made the nice plot of the pdfs to add a curve for a value of k less than one to the plot, so we can see it diverge at 0? Otherwise people may think the value at the mode is always finite. Btyner 19:29, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

## I think their is something wrong with the expression of the equation

like${\displaystyle 1-k/2\,}$ does that mean ${\displaystyle 1-{\frac {k}{2}}or{\frac {1-k}{2}}orneither?}$ —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Tikai (talkcontribs) 15:14, 11 May 2007 (UTC).

Order of operations states that ${\displaystyle 1-k/2}$ is equivalent to ${\displaystyle 1-{\frac {k}{2}}}$. Svyatoslav (talk) 21:29, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

And the variance looks wrong too. I believe the variance approaches ${\displaystyle 1/2}$ as ${\displaystyle k}$ goes to infinity Shabbychef (talk) 22:16, 13 March 2014 (UTC) Oh, wait, my bad, the ${\displaystyle \mu }$ refers to the mean of the chi, not the means of the normals. This looks fine. Shabbychef (talk) 22:18, 13 March 2014 (UTC)