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In this note we recall two recent characterizations of the multivariate normal distribution and give a few related remarks and examples.
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Hamedani, G.G. On two recent characterizations of multivariate normal distribution. Metrika 35, 41–47 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02613283
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