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Identities for Negative Moments of Quadratic Forms in Normal Variables

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Author(s)

Andrew L. Rukhin

Abstract

Two formulae for the central inverse moments of a Quadratic form in normal variables and of the ratio forms are established.  They relate the quadratic form determined by a positive definite matrix to that defined by the inverse matrix.  
Citation
Statistics and Probability Letters
Volume
79
Issue
8
Pub Type
Journals

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Keywords

Fractional derivatives, Moment generating function, Multiple hypergeometric function, Ratio of Quadratic forms in normal vectors
Information technology, Data and informatics and Statistical analysis

Citation

Rukhin, A. (2009), Identities for Negative Moments of Quadratic Forms in Normal Variables, Statistics and Probability Letters, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=152108 (Accessed October 10, 2025)

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Created April 15, 2009, Updated February 19, 2017
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