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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2009
1. It has been shown (1; 2, 136) that if Sr, ar, hr denote respectively the symmetric functions , Σλ1 λ2…λr, and the homogeneous product sum of degree r of the latent roots λ1, λ2, …, λn of the matrix X = [xij] then