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§19.31 Probability Distributions

R_{G}\left(x,y,z\right) and R_{F}\left(x,y,z\right) occur as the expectation values, relative to a normal probability distribution in {\mathbb{R}}^{2} or {\mathbb{R}}^{3}, of the square root or reciprocal square root of a quadratic form. More generally, let \mathbf{A} (=[a_{r,s}]) and \mathbf{B} (=[b_{r,s}]) be real positive-definite matrices with n rows and n columns, and let \lambda_{1},\dots,\lambda_{n} be the eigenvalues of \mathbf{A}\mathbf{B}^{-1}. If \mathbf{x} is a column vector with elements x_{1},x_{2},\dots,x_{n} and transpose \mathbf{x}^{\mathrm{T}}, then

19.31.1 \mathbf{x}^{\mathrm{T}}\mathbf{A}\mathbf{x}=\sum_{r=1}^{n}\sum_{s=1}^{n}a_{r,s%
}x_{r}x_{s},

and

§19.16(iii) shows that for n=3 the incomplete cases of R_{F} and R_{G} occur when \mu=-1/2 and \mu=1/2, respectively, while their complete cases occur when n=2.

For (19.31.2) and generalizations see Carlson (1972b).