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Asymptotic expansions of the distributions of Bartlett's test and sphericity test under the local alternatives

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Nagao, H. Asymptotic expansions of the distributions of Bartlett's test and sphericity test under the local alternatives. Ann Inst Stat Math 25, 407–422 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02479386

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