Friday, June 21, 2013

T distribution

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t location-scale distribution, which has three parameters, a scale parameter $\sigma>0$, a location parameter $\mu$, and a shape parameter $\nu>0$. The density function for this distribution is as follows:
$f(x) = \frac{\Gamma( \frac{\nu +1}{2})}{ \sigma \sqrt{\nu \pi} \Gamma(\frac{\nu}{2})} ( \frac{\nu + (\frac{x-\mu}{\sigma})^2}{\nu})^{-\frac{v+1}{2}}$
Note that if $x$ is t location-scale distributed, $\frac{x-\mu}{\sigma}$ is Student's t distributed with $\nu$ degrees of freedom.

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Hansen, B.E. (1994),  Autoregressive conditional density estimation  Intern. Econ. Rev. , vol. 35, no. 3, 705–730.

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