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Patil, S.A., Kovner, J.L. & Patel, D.C. The distribution of the MLE of the uniform correlation coefficient in the multivariate normal population. Ann Inst Stat Math 26, 403–411 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02479836
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