# Multivariate normal distribution?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/multivariate-normal-distribution/107560>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Tags:** question, plotting\
**Created:** [December 13, 2023, 11:02am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/multivariate-normal-distribution/107560 "2023-12-13T11:02:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![disaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/919ad9/32.png) [@disaster](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/disaster)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2023, 11:02am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/multivariate-normal-distribution/107560/1 "2023-12-13T11:02:42Z")

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Hello, i’m new to Julia and have to plot a multivariate normal distribution. If i use MvNormal and try to plot it like plot(x\_values,MvNormal) I get the Error Cannot convert FullNormal to series data for plotting stacktrace.  
Can somebody tell me what i’m doing wrong ?

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**Author:** ![nilshg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/nilshg/32/2283_2.png) [@nilshg](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/nilshg)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2023, 12:00pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/multivariate-normal-distribution/107560/2 "2023-12-13T12:00:50Z")

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What do you want to plot? The pdf? What plotting package are you using?

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**Author:** ![disaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/919ad9/32.png) [@disaster](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/disaster)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2023, 12:17pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/multivariate-normal-distribution/107560/3 "2023-12-13T12:17:44Z")

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Sorry i found out the topic is already solved.

> [@How to plot a multivariate normal distribution?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-plot-a-multivariate-normal-distribution/35486/7):
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> Just a warning/note about x-y ordering when creating the Z grid: if you’re plotting as a contour/heatmap, then you’ll want to reverse the for x in X, y in Y ordering to be for y in Y, x in X so that the grid maps to the x-y axes correctly. This is subtle, as it will not always present itself as a problem depending on the parameters of the MvNormal. Here’s an example plotting a bivariate normal distribution as filled contours: using Distributions using Plots μ = [0, 0] Σ = [1 0.9; 0.9 10…

Have a nice day.

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**Author:** ![John\_Gibson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/john_gibson/32/5321_2.png) [@John\_Gibson](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/John_Gibson)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2023, 12:32pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/multivariate-normal-distribution/107560/4 "2023-12-13T12:32:39Z")

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Can you post a minimum working example? I.e. the complete sequence of code that triggers the error, including the initialization of all variables and the loading of packages.

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