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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Multivariate normal distribution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The normal distribution also arises in many areas of statistics: for example, the sampling distribution of the mean is approximately normal, even if the distribution of the population the sample is taken from is not normal.
		The derivation of the maximum-likelihood estimator of the covariance matrix of a multivariate normal distribution is subtle.
		In that case, the assumption of normality is not justified, and it is the logarithm of the variable of interest that is normally distributed.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Multivariate_normal_distribution (301 words)

	Important Continuous Statistical Distributions in SEM
		The multivariate normal, or spherical, distribution, is a generalization of the normal.
		Note that the multivariate normal distribution is not a mere composite of univariate normal distributions.
		The Wishart distribution is the multivariate analog to the chi-square, and is related to the multivariate normal in the same way that the chi-square is related to the univariate normal.
	www.gsu.edu /~mkteer/continuo.html (976 words)

	Normal distribution Summary
		The normal distribution also arises in many areas of statistics: for example, the sampling distribution of the mean is approximately normal, even if the distribution of the population the sample is taken from is not normal.
		The derivation of the maximum-likelihood estimator of the covariance matrix of a multivariate normal distribution is subtle.
		In that case, the assumption of normality is not justified, and it is the logarithm of the variable of interest that is normally distributed.
	www.bookrags.com /Normal_distribution (4551 words)

	Multivariate Normal Distribution
		During this period, there was a popular misperception that a sum of normal random variables is itself normal.
		Perhaps the simplest is this: A random vector has a joint-normal distribution if every non-trivial liner polynomial of the random vector is itself normal.
		Johnson and Wichern (2002) is a multivariate statistics text with a full chapter on the joint-normal distribution.
	www.riskglossary.com /articles/joint_normal_distribution.htm (632 words)

	PlanetMath: joint normal distribution
		Like a random variable with a normal distribution, a finite set of random variables (or a random vector) with a joint normal distribution has some simple and attractive properties:
		be a random vector whose distribution is jointly normal.
		This is version 8 of joint normal distribution, born on 2005-07-01, modified 2006-12-06.
	planetmath.org /encyclopedia/MultivariateGaussianDistribution.html (197 words)

	Joint-Normal Distribution
		The joint-normal distribution (also called the multinormal or multivariate normal distribution) can be specified in various ways.
		This generalizes the analogous 1-dimensional property of univariate normal distributions.
		Both of its components have marginal distributions that are normal, but the random vector is not joint-normal.
	www.riskglossary.com /link/joint_normal_distribution.htm (632 words)

	Important Continuous Statistical Distributions in SEM
		The normal, or Gaussian, distribution is one of the most familiar in statistics, endeared to statisticians by its simplicity and by virtue of the Central Limit Theorem (which states that a sample mean will follow an approximately normal distribution, if sample size is large enough, even if the data themselves are not normally distributed).
		The multivariate normal, or spherical, distribution, is a generalization of the normal.
		The Wishart distribution is the multivariate analog to the chi-square, and is related to the multivariate normal in the same way that the chi-square is related to the univariate normal.
	www2.gsu.edu /~mkteer/continuo.html (976 words)

	Multivariate normal distribution
		That case arises frequently in statistics; for example, in the distribution of the vector of residuals in ordinary linear regression problems.
		If is a linear transformation of where is a rank matrix with then has a multivariate normal distribution with a mean of and a covariance matrix.
		The derivation of the maximum-likelihood estimator of the covariance matrix of a multivariate normal distribution is perhaps surprisingly subtle and elegant.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/m/mu/multivariate_normal_distribution.html (412 words)

	Multivariate normal distribution - Definition, explanation
		In probability theory and statistics, a multivariate normal distribution, also sometimes called a multivariate Gaussian distribution (in honor of Carl Friedrich Gauss, who was not the first to write about the normal distribution) is a specific probability distribution.
		If X and Y are normally distributed and independent, then they are "jointly normally distributed", i.e., the pair (X, Y) does have a bivariate normal distribution.
		Two random variables that are normally distributed may fail to be jointly normally distributed, i.e., the vector whose components they are may fail to have a multivariate normal distribution.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/m/mu/multivariate_normal_distribution.php (639 words)

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		The standard normal distribution (z distribution) is a normal distribution with a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1.
		The parameters of the normal distribution are the mean and the standard deviation (or the variance 2).
		Comment: The probability that a normally distributed quantity will be within a specified multiple of standard deviations of its mean is the same for all normal distributions.
	www.lycos.com /info/normal-distribution--standard-normal-distribution.html (517 words)

	Multivariate Normal Distribution :: Probability Distributions (Statistics Toolbox)
		It is a distribution for random vectors of correlated variables, each element of which has a univariate normal distribution.
		The multivariate normal distribution is parameterized with a mean vector, μ, and a covariance matrix, Σ;.
		The multivariate normal distribution is often used as a model for multivariate data, primarily because it is one of the few multivariate distributions that is tractible to work with.
	www.mathworks.com /access/helpdesk/help/toolbox/stats/bqovkht-1.html (482 words)

	Multivariate Normal (MVN) Distribution
		The Multivariate Normal distribution has a prominent role in statistics as a consequence of the Central Limit Theorem.
		In loose statistical jargon, the terms `linear' and `Normal' are sometimes interchangeable.
		Where we have random variables that are `normal', we can think of the components as additive.
	mcs.une.edu.au /~stat354/notes/node32.html (137 words)

	Multinormal
		For a bivariate normal distribution, there are five parameters: the mean of X, the mean of Y, the standard deviation of X, the standard deviation of Y and the covariance of X and Y. Remark.
		A bivariate normal distribution (joint normal distribution of just p = 2 variables) is specified by giving the values of five parameters, namely, the two means, the two standard deviations, and the correlation (or the covariance).
		Another way to specify a bivariate normal distribution is in terms of the conditional distribution of Y given X and the marginal distribution of X.
	www.uic.edu /classes/bstt/bstt580/jw4e/nts04.htm (1581 words)

	EPA Statistical Primer - Multivariate Methods
		Multivariate statistical methods are designed to evaluate more than 1 variable at a time.
		The diverse array of multivariate methods are easier to understand in terms of the number (and types) of dependent (or "response") variables on one side of the equation and the number of independent (or "predictor") variables on the other.
		The multivariate normal distribution is not assumed, rather, a distance measure is used to cluster similar cases together.
	www.epa.gov /bioindicators/statprimer/multivariate.html (292 words)

	Normal distribution
		The normal distribution, which is also known as the Gaussian distribution, is ubiquitous in statistics.
		This section concentrates on the univariate normal distribution, as the general multivariate distribution is not needed in this thesis.
		A plot of the probability density function of the normal distribution is shown in Figure A.1.
	www.cis.hut.fi /ahonkela/dippa/node94.html (161 words)

	Background
		When the distribution within each group is not assumed to have any specific distribution or is assumed to have a distribution different from the multivariate normal distribution, nonparametric methods can be used to derive classification criteria.
		If your quantitative variables are not normally distributed, or if you want to classify observations on the basis of categorical variables, you should consider using the CATMOD or LOGISTIC procedure to fit a categorical linear model with the classification variable as the dependent variable.
		Efron (1975) shows that with two normal populations having a common covariance matrix, logistic regression is between one half and two thirds as effective as the linear discriminant function in achieving asymptotically the same error rate.
	www.asu.edu /sas/sasdoc/sashtml/stat/chap7/sect2.htm (682 words)

	Procedures - Posterior Distributions - Details
		The calculations of the moments of a multivariate posterior distribution most tractable when analytic results are available, as is the case for the normal distribution, and the prior distribution is multivariate normal.
		Our estimate of the standard error of the posterior mean begins as though the posterior distributions were approximated as normal, although in the case of subscales, they need not be.
		Readers should note that the posterior distributions for individual subscales are calculated on a finite set of points and may take on any shape.
	am.air.org /help/NAEPTextbook/htm/dPosteriorDistribution.htm (727 words)

	Estimating Value at Risk with Copulas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		To illustrate, suppose that X and Y are multivariate standard normal with a Spearman (or rank) correlation of 0.45.
		A product copula with Gaussian (or normal) marginals is the same as a Gaussian copula with a zero correlation coefficient, and this in turn is the same as a multivariate standard normal distribution with a zero correlation.
		For the normal distribution the Spearman correlation is
	www.fenews.com /fen39/one_time_articles/copula/copula-var.htm (993 words)

	The Skew-Normal Distribution
		The SN distribution is an extension of the normal (Gaussian) probability distribution, allowing for the presence of skewness.
		In 1908, Fernando de Helguero presented a paper which examines a selection mechanism of a normal population as a model of departure from normality.
		The `library sn' is a suite of functions for handling skew-normal and skew-t distributions, both in the univariate and the multivariate cases.
	azzalini.stat.unipd.it /SN (1143 words)

	Introduction to the Mathematical and Statistical Foundations of Econometrics - Cambridge University Press
		It covers the measure-theoretical foundation of probability theory, the multivariate normal distribution with its application to classical linear regression analysis, various laws of large numbers, central limit theorems and related results for independent random variables as well as for stationary time series, with applications to asymptotic inference of M-estimators, and maximum likelihood theory.
		The uniform distribution and its relation to the standard normal distribution; 34.
		Distribution of quadratic forms of multivariate normal random variables; 41.
	www.cambridge.org /catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521542243 (545 words)

	An Introduction to Chemometrics, by Brian A. Rock, Ph.D.
		The term multivariate analysis, as usually applied by chemometricians, defines any statistical, mathematical or graphical approach which considers multiple variables simultaneously.
		Chemists occasionally perform classical multivariate analysis, but usually, when a chemist refers to multivariate analysis, he is referring to the more general definition.
		Missing values severely degrade the performance of multivariate techniques; in most cases, it might be best to remove the whole observation from the data set, rather than attempt some kind of missing value correction.
	home.neo.rr.com /catbar/chemo/chem_txt.htm (4493 words)

	Multivariate Six Sigma
		This requires use of a distribution such as the multivariate normal distribution which accounts for the covariances amongst the variables.
		When they are not, use of the normal distribution for the estimation of capability indices and the construction of control charts can be very misleading.
		The use of multivariate desirability functions and optimization methods is critical to overall success.
	www.statgraphics.com /summa_six_sigma.htm (351 words)

	CRAN Task View: Multivariate Statistics
		Application-specific uses of multivariate statistics are described in relevant task views, for example whilst principal components are listed here, ordination is covered in the Environmetrics task view.
		mvtnorm also provides simulation as well as probability and quantile functions for both the multivariate t distribution and multivariate normal distributions as well as density functions for the multivariate normal distribution.
		Suffice to say here that classification trees are sometimes considered within multivariate methods; rpart is most used for this purpose, mvpart extend regression trees to cover multivariate regression trees.
	cran.r-project.org /src/contrib/Views/Multivariate.html (1684 words)

	Multivariate normal cumulative distribution function (cdf) in MATLAB - Alex Strashny (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In statistics, the multivariate normal (mvn) is a popular distribution.
		Unfortunately, its cumulative distribution function (cdf) does not have a closed form.
		There are, however, a number of algorithms that numerically estimate the value of the cdf.
	alex.strashny.org /a/Multivariate-normal-cumulative-distribution-function-(cdf)-in-MATLAB.html (75 words)

	Citations: Estimation of the mean of a multivariate normal distribution - Stein (ResearchIndex)
		Stein, C. Estimation of the mean of a multivariate normal distribution', Annals of Statistics 9, 1135--1151.
		Stein, C. Estimation of the mean of a multivariate normal distribution, Ann.
		Stein, "Estimation of the mean of a multivariate normal distribution," The Annals of Statistics, vol.
	citeseer.ist.psu.edu /context/32358/0 (1376 words)

	Special Distributions
		In this chapter, we study a number of special distributions that are important in probability and statistics.
		An incredible variety of special distributions have been studied over the years, and new ones are constantly being added to the literature.
		The definitive works on special distributions are the books by Johnson and Kotz and their co-authors.
	www.math.uah.edu /stat/special (159 words)

	cqplot - Chi-square Q-Q plot
		For p variables and a large sample size, the squared Mahalanobis distances of the observations to the mean vector are distributed as chi-square with p degrees of freedom when the data has a multivariate normal distribution.
		However, the sample size must be quite large for the chi-square distribution to obtain unless p is very small.
		So, this plot should be cautiously used as a rough indicator of multivariate normality.
	www.math.yorku.ca /SCS/sasmac/cqplot.html (364 words)

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