Generating functions and short recursions, with applications to the moments of quadratic forms in noncentral normal vectors
Hillier, Grant, Kan, Raymond and Wang, Xiaolu (2008) Generating functions and short recursions, with applications to the moments of quadratic forms in noncentral normal vectors. London, GB, Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (CEMMAP Working Paper, CWP14/08).
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Using generating functions, the top-order zonal polynomials that occur in much distribution theory under normality can be recursively related to other symmetric functions (power-sum and elementary symmetric functions, Ruben, Hillier, Kan, and Wang). Typically, in a recursion of this type the k-th object of interest, dk say, is expressed in terms of all lower-order dj's. In Hillier, Kan, and Wang we pointed out that, in the case of top-order zonal polynomials (and generalizations of them), a shorter (i.e., fixed length) recursion can be deduced. The present paper shows that the argument in generalizes to a large class of objects/generating functions. The results thus obtained are then applied to various problems involving quadratic forms in noncentral normal vectors.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HA Statistics |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Social Sciences > Economics University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Management |
| Item ID: | 55071 |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Aug 2008 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Jan 2012 17:17 |
| Contributors: | Hillier, Grant (Author) Kan, Raymond (Author) Wang, Xiaolu (Author) |
| Date: | June 2008 |
| Status: | Unpublished |
| Publisher: | Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/55071 |
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