PROPERTIES OF MULTIVARIATE BETA DISTRIBUTIONS

Daya K. Nagar (Colombia) and Erika Alejandra Rada-Mora (Colombia)

Received October 9, 2007

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Keywords and phrases: asymptotic, beta distribution, Dirichlet distribution, transformation.