On the Conditional Distribution of the Multivariate $t$ Distribution
Statistics Theory
2016-04-05 v1 Statistics Theory
Abstract
As alternatives to the normal distributions, distributions are widely applied in robust analysis for data with outliers or heavy tails. The properties of the multivariate distribution are well documented in Kotz and Nadarajah's book, which, however, states a wrong conclusion about the conditional distribution of the multivariate distribution. Previous literature has recognized that the conditional distribution of the multivariate distribution also follows the multivariate distribution. We provide an intuitive proof without directly manipulating the complicated density function of the multivariate distribution.
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@article{arxiv.1604.00561,
title = {On the Conditional Distribution of the Multivariate $t$ Distribution},
author = {Peng Ding},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.00561},
year = {2016}
}