diff --git a/@MoDT/Estep.m b/@MoDT/Estep.m
index 4af7d6f..098eddc 100644
--- a/@MoDT/Estep.m
+++ b/@MoDT/Estep.m
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
     % Mahalanobis distance is cached from the M-step
     delta = self.mahal_dist;
     for k = 1:K
-        logSqrtDetC(k) = sum(log(diag(chol(self.C(:,:,k))))) / 2;
+        logSqrtDetC(k) = sum(log(diag(chol(self.C(:,:,k)))));
     end
 end