Expectation of quadratic forms in normal and nonnormal variables with applications

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 140, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1193-1205

  Bao, Yong ^a   Ullah, Aman ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Expectation; Nonnormality; Quadratic form

Indexed keywords

EID: 74149094589     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2009.11.002     Document Type: Article

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