and
occur as the expectation
values, relative to a normal probability distribution in
or
, of the square root or reciprocal square root of a quadratic form.
More generally, let
(
) and
(
) be real positive-definite matrices with
rows and
columns, and let
be
the eigenvalues of
. If
is a column
vector with elements
and transpose
,
then
and

§19.16(iii) shows that for
the incomplete cases of
and
occur when
and
, respectively, while
their complete cases occur when
.