Matrix gamma distribution

Matrix gamma
Notation
Parameters

shape parameter (real)
scale parameter

scale (positive-definite real matrix)
Support positive-definite real matrix
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In statistics, a matrix gamma distribution is a generalization of the gamma distribution to positive-definite matrices.[1] It is a more general version of the Wishart distribution, and is used similarly, e.g. as the conjugate prior of the precision matrix of a multivariate normal distribution and matrix normal distribution. The compound distribution resulting from compounding a matrix normal with a matrix gamma prior over the precision matrix is a generalized matrix t-distribution.[1]

This reduces to the Wishart distribution with

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 Iranmanesh, Anis, M. Arashib 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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