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Statistical analysis of clusters of extreme events
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Normally distributed and uncorrelated does not imply independent
In probability theory, although simple examples illustrate that linear uncorrelatedness of two random variables does not in general imply their independence, it is sometimes mistakenly thought that it does imply that when the two random variables are normally distributed. This article demonstrates that assumption of normal distributions does not have that consequence, although the multivariate normal distribution, including the bivariate normal distribution, does.
Quadratic form (statistics)
In multivariate statistics, if is a vector of random variables, and is an -dimensional symmetric matrix, then the scalar quantity is known as a quadratic form in . It can be shown that where and are the expected value and variance-covariance matrix of , respectively, and tr denotes the trace of a matrix. This result only depends on the existence of and ; in particular, normality of is not required. A book treatment of the topic of quadratic forms in random variables is that of Mathai and Provost.