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An equivalence criterion for infinite products of Cauchy measures

Probability 2021-01-21 v2

Abstract

We give an equivalence-singularity criterion for infinite products of Cauchy measures under simultaneous shifts of the location and scale parameters. Our result is an extension of Lie and Sullivan's result giving an equivalence-singularity criterion under dilations of scale parameters. Our proof utilizes McCullagh's parameterization of the Cauchy distributions and maximal invariant, and a closed-form formula of the Kullback-Leibler divergence between two Cauchy measures given by Chyzak and Nielsen.

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@article{arxiv.2004.06442,
  title  = {An equivalence criterion for infinite products of Cauchy measures},
  author = {Kazuki Okamura},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.06442},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

6 pages; Lemma 2.4 in the published version is wrong. It is corrected, and the proof is given