One way of testing data for multivariate normality is to plot the ordered squared radii against their expected values. It is suggested that the approximation to the null distribution offered by the beta distribution is a useful improvement on that afforded by the chi-squared distribution.
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N. J. H. Small (1978) studied this question.
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