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IN THIS CHAPTER, we generalize the bivariate normal distribution from the previous chapter to an arbitrary number of dimensions. We also make use of the matrix notation. The mathematics is generally more dense and relies on the linear algebra notation covered in Chapter 4. In Sect. 4.5, we pointed out there is a limit on what computations we can reasonably perform by hand. For this reason, we illustrate these various operations with the help of R.
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Zelterman, D. (2022). Multivariate Normal Distribution. In: Applied Multivariate Statistics with R. Statistics for Biology and Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13005-2_7
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