If the sample variance tensor be Φ for a normal 2-dimensional vector population (the mean is unspecified), we can test the null hypothesis H0: the population variance tensor is isotropic, by a statistic G, which is equal to_??_. The sampling distribution of G is given by or where N means the size of the sample.
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