Matrix t-distribution
In statistics, the matrix t-distribution (or matrix variate t-distribution) is the generalization of the multivariate t-distribution from vectors to matrices.[1] The matrix t-distribution shares the same relationship with the multivariate t-distribution that the matrix normal distribution shares with the multivariate normal distribution. For example, the matrix t-distribution is the compound distribution that results from sampling from a matrix normal distribution having sampled the covariance matrix of the matrix normal from an inverse Wishart distribution.
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Variance | if , else undefined | ||
CF | see below |
In a Bayesian analysis of a multivariate linear regression model based on the matrix normal distribution, the matrix t-distribution is the posterior predictive distribution.
Definition
For a matrix t-distribution, the probability density function at the point of an space is
where the constant of integration K is given by
Here is the multivariate gamma function.
The characteristic function and various other properties can be derived from the generalized matrix t-distribution (see below).
Generalized matrix t-distribution
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CDF | No analytic expression | ||
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The generalized matrix t-distribution is a generalization of the matrix t-distribution with two parameters α and β in place of ν.[2]
This reduces to the standard matrix t-distribution with
The generalized matrix t-distribution is the compound distribution that results from an infinite mixture of a matrix normal distribution with an inverse multivariate gamma distribution placed over either of its covariance matrices.
Properties
If then
The property above comes from Sylvester's determinant theorem:
If and and are nonsingular matrices then
The characteristic function is[2]
where
and where is the type-two Bessel function of Herz of a matrix argument.
Notes
- Zhu, Shenghuo and Kai Yu and Yihong Gong (2007). "Predictive Matrix-Variate t Models." In J. C. Platt, D. Koller, Y. Singer, and S. Roweis, editors, NIPS '07: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 20, pages 1721–1728. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008. The notation is changed a bit in this article for consistency with the matrix normal distribution article.
- Iranmanesh, Anis, M. Arashi and S. M. M. Tabatabaey (2010). "On Conditional Applications of Matrix Variate Normal Distribution". Iranian Journal of Mathematical Sciences and Informatics, 5:2, pp. 33–43.