Hotelling's T-squared distribution
| Hotelling's T2 distribution | |||
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| Parameters | p - dimension of the random variables m - related to the sample size | ||
| Support | if otherwise. | ||
In statistics, particularly in hypothesis testing, the Hotelling's T-squared distribution (T2), proposed by Harold Hotelling, is a multivariate probability distribution that is tightly related to the F-distribution and is most notable for arising as the distribution of a set of sample statistics that are natural generalizations of the statistics underlying the Student's t-distribution. The Hotelling's t-squared statistic (t2) is a generalization of Student's t-statistic that is used in multivariate hypothesis testing.