Densities of noncentral F laws #
The noncentral F density is a convergent Poisson series of scaled central F densities. The scale in each summand is essential: the numerator of the defining ratio is divided by the original numerator degree, rather than the degree of that central component.
The real and extended nonnegative densities vanish at nonpositive arguments and at invalid degrees. Their weighted Lebesgue measure is the ratio law, giving normalization and the Radon–Nikodym and random-variable density identities.
References #
- N. L. Johnson, S. Kotz, N. Balakrishnan, Continuous Univariate Distributions, vol. 2, second edition, Wiley, 1995, chapter 30.
The extended density is the nonnegative coercion of the real density.
The chosen real density vanishes at nonpositive arguments.
The real density is nonnegative at all parameters and arguments.
Zero noncentrality recovers the central F density, including invalid degrees.
The extended density vanishes at nonpositive arguments.
Zero noncentrality recovers the central extended density.
Converting the extended density to a real number recovers the real density.
Joint measurability of the real density in both degrees, noncentrality and argument.
Joint measurability of the extended density.
Measurability of the real density in its argument.
Measurability of the extended density in its argument.
The noncentral F ratio law has its Poisson-series density, including invalid degrees.
The real density is integrable, also at invalid degrees where it vanishes.
The Radon–Nikodym derivative of the noncentral F law is the named density.
The canonical density of a variable with noncentral F law is the named density.