Recurrence formula for expectations of products of quadratic forms

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 101-109

  Ghazal, G A ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Covariance matrices; Expectations; Product of quadratic forms; Random discriminants; Vandermonde determinants

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030123861     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-7152(95)00050-X     Document Type: Article

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