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The generalised product moment distribution in a normal system

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

J. Wishart  and
M. S. Bartlett
J. Wishart
Affiliation:
Clare College
M. S. Bartlett
Affiliation:
Queens' College
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1. In a previous paper (1) the authors used the theory of the moment generating function to deduce the known random sampling distributions of the estimated variance and co-variance in a system of variables following the normal law of frequency. In this paper we shall go much further. By means of the same general method the simultaneous distribution of the ½p (p + 1) second order moment statistics in a normal system of p mutually correlated variables will be deduced. It will be shown to be completely independent of that of the p sample means, and incidentally the method of proof to be developed will be found, in the special cases p = 1 and 2, to be an improvement on that given in the earlier paper, being independent of previous results reached by other authors.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , May 1933 , pp. 260 - 270
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1933

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