Minimum of chi-squares

From: njindal <nihar.jindal@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 16:56:30 EDT

Is there a closed form expression for the expected value of the minimum of M random variables, each iid chi-square with 2N degrees of freedom (i.e. gamma distribu with scale=2, shape=N)?
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