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3. The Multivariate Normal Distribution 3.1 Introduction A generalization of the familiar bell shaped normal density to several dimensions plays a fundamental role in multivariate analysis While real data are never exactly multivariate normal, the normal density is often a useful approximation to the \true" population distribution because
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