Tables for Distributions of Quadratic Forms.

Abstract

The tables provide probabilities of a form and are independent chi-square random variables with one degree of freedom, for n=2,3. These extensive tables for n=2,3 were given in an unpublished Technical Report. A number of requests over the years plus the additional uses for it for n > 3 discussed in this paper and by Bock (1984) suggest that its republication is merited. Keywords include: Quadratic forms; Linear combinations of chi-square variables; Percentiles.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 21, 1985
Accession Number
ADA154064

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People

  • H. Solomon
  • M. E. Bock

Organizations

  • Stanford University

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  • C4I

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  • Circular Error Probable
  • Coefficients
  • Data Science
  • Distribution Functions
  • Equations
  • Goodness Of Fit Tests
  • Military Research
  • Normal Distribution
  • North Carolina
  • Probability
  • Random Variables
  • Statistics
  • United States
  • United States Government
  • Universities
  • Wishart Matrices

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  • Mathematics

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