Re: [R] product of two chi-squared

2004-07-01 Thread Spencer Graves
Assuming independence, the expectation of a product is the product of the expectations. From this you could easily get moments of all orders and thence the moment generating function or characteristic function. By direct computation (or consulting Johnson and Kotz, Distributions in Stati

Re: [R] product of two chi-squared

2004-07-01 Thread Giovanni Petris
There is not enough information here: you need to know the joint distribution of the two. If they are independent, the expectation of the product is just the product of expectations - as any elementary textbook will tell you. Giovanni > Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 14:51:31 -0400 > From: "Eugene Salin

[R] product of two chi-squared

2004-07-01 Thread Eugene Salinas (R)
Hi, Does anyone know what the expectation of the product of two chi-squares distributions is? Is the product of two chi-squared distributions anything useful (as in a nice distribution)? thanks, eugene. __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.sta