On the distribution of linear combinations of the components of a Dirichlet random vector

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 417-425

  Provost, Serge B ^a   Cheong, Young Ho ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cliff ord test; Coefficient of determination; Dirichlet distribution; Geary index; Model identification; Moran index; Periodogram; Quadratic forms; Robust tests; Sample au; Sample spectrum; Spherically symmetric distributions; Tocorrelations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034343762     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3315988     Document Type: Article

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