A dimensional CLT for non-central Wilks' lambda in multivariate analysis

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 585-601

  Butler, Ronald W ^a   Wood, Andrew T A ^b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cumulants; Hypergeometric function; Likelihood ratio; Method of moments; Moment generating function; Zonal polynomials

Indexed keywords

EID: 10444271770     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9469.2004.00408.x     Document Type: Article

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