Statisticians frequently assume that data follow a normal distribution when developing statistical methods and performing practical data analysis. In most introductory statistics textbooks, the ...

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For a spherically symmetric multivariate normal random sample, the asymptotic distribution of the largest interpoint Euclidean distance is derived. The number of interpoint distances exceeding a high ...

When values of regressors are symmetrically disposed, many M-estimators in a wide class of models have a reflection property, namely, that as the signs of the coefficients on regressors are reversed, ...