Arbeitspapier

Generating functions and short recursions, with applications to the moments of quadratic forms in noncentral normal vectors

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 [19], Hillier, Kan, and Wang [9]). 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 [9] 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 [9] 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.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: cemmap working paper ; No. CWP14/08

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
Multikriteria-Verfahren

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Hillier, Grant
Kan, Raymond
Wang, Xiaolu
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap)
(wo)
London
(wann)
2008

DOI
doi:10.1920/wp.cem.2008.1408
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Hillier, Grant
  • Kan, Raymond
  • Wang, Xiaolu
  • Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap)

Entstanden

  • 2008

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