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Theorems Relating to Quadratic Forms and their Discriminant Matrices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

S. Vajda
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In a paper read before the Research Branch of the Royal Statistical Society (Ref. 1, p. 150) the following case was considered:

Let the expression be given; introduce, for c, a linear form in and obtain

If the yi are sample values from a normal population with unit variance, then it is known (Ref. 2) that (1) is distributed as where zi varies as chi-squared with one degree of freedom and the li are the latent roots of the matrix of the quadratic form. If these latent roots are f times unity and n—f times zero, then this reduces to a chi-squared distribution with f degrees of freedom.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1953

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