Series Editor's Preface. Preface. 1. Preliminaries. 2. Basic Properties. 3. Probability Density Function and Expected Values. 4. Mixtures of Normal Distributions. 5. Quadratic Forms and other Functions of Elliptically Contoured Matrices. 6. Characterization Results. 7. Estimation. 8. Hypothesis Testing. 9. Linear Models. References. Author Index. Subject Index.