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.

Matrix t
Notation
Parameters

location (real matrix)
scale (positive-definite real matrix)
scale (positive-definite real matrix)

degrees of freedom
Support
PDF

CDF No analytic expression
Mean if , else undefined
Mode
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

Generalized matrix t
Notation
Parameters

location (real matrix)
scale (positive-definite real matrix)
scale (positive-definite real matrix)
shape parameter

scale parameter
Support
PDF

CDF No analytic expression
Mean
Variance
CF see below

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.

See also

Notes

  1. 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.
  2. 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.


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