In many industrial applications, the output of a process characterized by p variables that are measured simultaneously. Independent variables can be charted individually, but if the variables are ...

In this situation, it was shown by Gnanadesikan and Kettenring (1972), using a result of Wilks (1962), that T 2 i is exactly distributed as a multiple of a variable with a beta distribution.

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