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 You can use the [multvardiv](https://forgemia.inra.fr/imhorphen/multvardiv) package,
-which provides the same tools for the multivariate generalized Gaussian distribution
+which provides the same tools for the multivariate $t$ distribution
 and other multvariate distributions.
 
 # mstudentd
 
 This package provides tools for multivariate $t$ distributions (MTD):
 
-* Calculation of distance/divergence between multivariate generalised Gaussian distributions (MTD):
+* Calculation of distance/divergence between multivariate $t$ distributions (MTD):
   + Renyi divergence
   + Kullback divergence
 * Manipulation of MTD distributions: