Cochran's statistical theorem revisited

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 136, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2659-2667

  Tian, Yongge ^a   Styan, George P H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chi squared distribution; Idempotent matrices; Matrix version of Cochran's theorem; Quadratic forms in normal variables; Rank additivity; Rank equalities; Rank formulas for partitioned matrices; Rank subtractivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645907212     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2004.09.016     Document Type: Article

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