# How to make the standard deviation of the dependent variable to be inferred?

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**Created:** [August 3, 2017, 1:27pm UTC](https://discourse.edwardlib.org/t/how-to-make-the-standard-deviation-of-the-dependent-variable-to-be-inferred/281 "2017-08-03T13:27:17Z")
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### Author: ![ecosang](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.edwardlib.org/ecosang/32/110_2.png) [@ecosang](https://discourse.edwardlib.org/u/ecosang)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2017, 12:08am UTC](https://discourse.edwardlib.org/t/how-to-make-the-standard-deviation-of-the-dependent-variable-to-be-inferred/281/2 "2017-08-04T00:08:16Z")

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chi sq and gamma do not look good choice. see this

> [@A toy normal model failed (klqp) and why?](https://discourse.edwardlib.org/t/a-toy-normal-model-failed-klqp-and-why/253/3):
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> Thank you so much!!. Well, when I run the inference.run() the results are too different. I guess that is because of the inverse gamma distribution. I appreciate your notebook!

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