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Explicit expressions for joint moments of $n$-dimensional elliptical distributions

Statistics Theory 2020-08-04 v2 Risk Management Statistics Theory

Abstract

Inspired by Stein's lemma, we derive two expressions for the joint moments of elliptical distributions. We use two different methods to derive E[X12f(X)]E[X_{1}^{2}f(\mathbf{X})] for any measurable function ff satisfying some regularity conditions. Then, by applying this result, we obtain new formulae for expectations of product of normally distributed random variables, and also present simplified expressions of E[X12f(X)]E[X_{1}^{2}f(\mathbf{X})] for multivariate Student-tt, logistic and Laplace distributions.

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@article{arxiv.2007.09349,
  title  = {Explicit expressions for joint moments of $n$-dimensional elliptical distributions},
  author = {Baishuai Zuo and Chuancun Yin and Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.09349},
  year   = {2020}
}

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20 pages