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Gerald Edgar
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in Euclidean space defined by multivariate normal distribution, what fraction of points falls within n-ball (centered at origin) tangent to point p?

In a Euclidean space defined by the multivariate normal distribution, what fraction of all points falls within or are tangent to (as opposed to falling outside of) the n-sphere whose center is at the origin and which is tangent to the point p represented by Cartesian coordinates:

vector(θ) =(θ1, θ2, θ3, θ4 θ5, ... θn)

representing sigmas in the multivariate normal distribution in n dimensions?

This is a post-doctoral question and I could not find it in the literature. I tried searches for the terms you see in the subject line.

p.s. in terms of the picture in the link, the question is: "what fraction of all the dots are in the green circle?" (where in this case the green circle is defined by an arbitrary point on its circumference.)

In terms of R-programming-language code I would like to give a vector and get back a number between 0 and 1.