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Calculations involving the multivariate normal and multivariate t distributions with and without truncation

Computation 2017-11-29 v1

Abstract

This paper presents a set of Stata commands and Mata functions to evaluate different distributional quantities of the multivariate normal distribution, and a particular type of non-central multivariate t distribution. Specifically, their densities, distribution functions, equicoordinate quantiles, and pseudo-random vectors can be computed efficiently, either in the absence or presence of variable truncation.

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@article{arxiv.1711.10186,
  title  = {Calculations involving the multivariate normal and multivariate t distributions with and without truncation},
  author = {Michael Grayling and Adrian Mander},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.10186},
  year   = {2017}
}