The hyperoctahedral group, symmetric group representations and the moments of the real Wishart distribution

Journal of Theoretical Probability

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-42

  Graczyk, P ^a   Letac, G ^b   Massam, H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ D'ANGERS   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE MATHÉMATIQUES DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gelfand pair; Hyperoctahedral group; Moments; Wishart distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 16244392721     PISSN: 08949840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10959-004-0579-9     Document Type: Article

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