<h3 dir="auto">Describe your issue.</h3>
<p dir="auto">Docs for <code class="notranslate">scipy.stats.multivariate_normal</code> here: <a href="https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/generated/scipy.stats.multivariate_normal.html" rel="nofollow">https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/generated/scipy.stats.multivariate_normal.html</a></p>
<p dir="auto">Render the method signatures with two backticks at the beginning and at the end, which they should not have. The docs from other distributions do not have this issue - e.g.: <a href="https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/generated/scipy.stats.norm.html" rel="nofollow">https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/generated/scipy.stats.norm.html</a></p>
<h3 dir="auto">Reproducing Code Example</h3>
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<h3 dir="auto">Error message</h3>
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<h3 dir="auto">SciPy/NumPy/Python version information</h3>
<p dir="auto">1.7.1</p>
<p dir="auto">As noted in <a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="698439372" data-permission-text="Title is private" data-url="https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/12839" data-hovercard-type="pull_request" data-hovercard-url="/scipy/scipy/pull/12839/hovercard" href="https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/12839">gh-12839</a>, there are a few issues that affect the documentation of several multivariate distributions.</p>
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<li class="task-list-item"><input type="checkbox" id="" disabled="" class="task-list-item-checkbox" checked=""> Class documentation defines a parameter <code class="notranslate">x</code>, but <code class="notranslate">x</code> is not a parameter of the initializer.</li>
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<p dir="auto"><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/6570539/93006843-22ca7280-f516-11ea-832b-1c2e16599710.png"><img src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/6570539/93006843-22ca7280-f516-11ea-832b-1c2e16599710.png" alt="image" style="max-width: 100%;"></a></p>
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<li class="task-list-item"><input type="checkbox" id="" disabled="" class="task-list-item-checkbox" checked=""> Class documentation defines a parameter <code class="notranslate">random_state</code> instead of <code class="notranslate">seed</code>.</li>
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<p dir="auto"><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/6570539/93006871-8654a000-f516-11ea-9f05-031af2240e5c.png"><img src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/6570539/93006871-8654a000-f516-11ea-9f05-031af2240e5c.png" alt="image" style="max-width: 100%;"></a></p>
<p dir="auto"><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/6570539/93006860-5c02e280-f516-11ea-9ad8-4758ab3660a4.png"><img src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/6570539/93006860-5c02e280-f516-11ea-9ad8-4758ab3660a4.png" alt="image" style="max-width: 100%;"></a></p>
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<li class="task-list-item"><input type="checkbox" id="" disabled="" class="task-list-item-checkbox" checked=""> The text in the class documentation about returning a frozen distribution appears in bold like parameter names, and there is an unnecessary bullet point before "Frozen"</li>
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<p dir="auto"><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/6570539/93006922-24486a80-f517-11ea-81f5-a113fad6829d.png"><img src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/6570539/93006922-24486a80-f517-11ea-81f5-a113fad6829d.png" alt="image" style="max-width: 100%;"></a></p>
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<li class="task-list-item"><input type="checkbox" id="" disabled="" class="task-list-item-checkbox" checked=""> The Methods sections renders with double backticks around each method signature.</li>
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<p dir="auto"><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/6570539/93006880-a5533200-f516-11ea-8c5f-c782724d64f5.png"><img src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/6570539/93006880-a5533200-f516-11ea-8c5f-c782724d64f5.png" alt="image" style="max-width: 100%;"></a></p>
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<li class="task-list-item"><input type="checkbox" id="" disabled="" class="task-list-item-checkbox"> Some parameters of the methods (e.g. <code class="notranslate">size</code>, <code class="notranslate">abseps</code>, <code class="notranslate">releps</code>) are not defined</li>
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<p dir="auto"><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/6570539/93006895-d9c6ee00-f516-11ea-8397-9252eb384587.png"><img src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/6570539/93006895-d9c6ee00-f516-11ea-8397-9252eb384587.png" alt="image" style="max-width: 100%;"></a></p>
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<li class="task-list-item"><input type="checkbox" id="" disabled="" class="task-list-item-checkbox"> Related to the problems above, and true of univariate distributions, too: method names do not link to any documentation. Perhaps this is intended, but I think it would be useful to at least link to the <code class="notranslate">rv_continuous</code> method documentation. In any case, it looks like the author of <code class="notranslate">multinomial</code> intended for the documentation to be rendered somewhere, e.g.</li>
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<div class="snippet-clipboard-content notranslate position-relative overflow-auto" data-snippet-clipboard-copy-content="    def logpmf(self, x, n, p):
        &quot;&quot;&quot;
        Log of the Multinomial probability mass function.

        Parameters
        ----------
        x : array_like
            Quantiles, with the last axis of `x` denoting the components.
        %(_doc_default_callparams)s

        Returns
        -------
        logpmf : ndarray or scalar
            Log of the probability mass function evaluated at `x`

        Notes
        -----
        %(_doc_callparams_note)s
        &quot;&quot;&quot;"><pre class="notranslate"><code class="notranslate">    def logpmf(self, x, n, p):
        """
        Log of the Multinomial probability mass function.

        Parameters
        ----------
        x : array_like
            Quantiles, with the last axis of `x` denoting the components.
        %(_doc_default_callparams)s

        Returns
        -------
        logpmf : ndarray or scalar
            Log of the probability mass function evaluated at `x`

        Notes
        -----
        %(_doc_callparams_note)s
        """
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<p dir="auto">Also, not sure how closely related <a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="569538227" data-permission-text="Title is private" data-url="https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/11578" data-hovercard-type="issue" data-hovercard-url="/scipy/scipy/issues/11578/hovercard" href="https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/11578">gh-11578</a> is, but it is worth mentioning here.</p>