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On the Conditional Distribution of the Multivariate tt Distribution

Abstract

As alternatives to the normal distributions, tt distributions are widely applied in robust analysis for data with outliers or heavy tails. The properties of the multivariate tt distribution are well documented in Kotz and Nadarajah's book, which, however, states a wrong conclusion about the conditional distribution of the multivariate tt distribution. Previous literature has recognized that the conditional distribution of the multivariate tt distribution also follows the multivariate tt distribution. We provide an intuitive proof without directly manipulating the complicated density function of the multivariate tt distribution.

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