This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Some conjectures made by De Waal [Ann. Math. Statist. 43 (1972) 344-347] on the expectation of elementary symmetric functions of the roots of ...

This paper provides proof of conjectures about the expected values of the jth elementary symmetric function of the roots (i.e. $E(\operatorname{tr}_j A)$) of a non ...