conjugacy

English

Noun

conjugacy (countable and uncountable, plural conjugacies)

1. (mathematics) The condition or state of being conjugate.
   • 2012 May 25, Steven W. Nydick, The Wishart and Inverse Wishart Distributions:

     Because the gamma distribution is the conjugate prior for the precision parameter ($\tau =1/\sigma ^{2}$) of a univariate normal distribution, the Wishart distribution (as its multivariate generalization) extends conjugacy to the multivariate normal distribution.

Derived terms

• conjugacy class

Further reading

• conjugacy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia