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Original Articles

A characterization of the multivariate normal distribution

Pages 135-140 | Received 01 Feb 1976, Published online: 05 Jul 2007
 

Abstract

The not independent identically distributed random variables X1,…,Xn (with zero means and finite variances) are distributed according to a nondegenerate multivariate normal distribution if and only if (with a suitable chosen matrix B) has independent components U1,…,Un and X1,…,Xn, U1,…,Un are identically distributed.

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