Diagonal marginals of the inverse-Wishart law #
For a positive-definite scale S, every diagonal entry of an inverse-Wishart matrix of degree n
has the inverse-gamma law of shape (n - p + 1) / 2 and scale S i i / 2. Equivalently, if W
is Wishart of degree n > p - 1 and scale S⁻¹, the reciprocal of the diagonal entry
(W⁻¹) i i — the Schur complement of the complementary principal block of W — is (S i i)⁻¹
times a chi-squared variable with n - p + 1 degrees of freedom. These scalar laws are what the
inverse-Wishart family offers to one-dimensional observables. In particular, for degree
n > p - 1 the diagonal quantile at an interior level u is
(S i i / 2) / inverseRegularizedGamma ((n - p + 1) / 2) (1 - u), with endpoint limits zero and
infinity.
The identification of ((W⁻¹) i i)⁻¹ with the scalar Schur complement is
Matrix.PosDef.inv_inv_apply_self_eq_sub.
The general-scale laws extend the standard-scale case
TauCeti.Probability.map_coe_apply_inverseWishartMeasure_one.
When the degree is at most p - 1 the inverse-Wishart law is zero, and so is the inverse-gamma
law of nonpositive shape, so the inverse-gamma statement needs no hypothesis on the degree.
Main results #
TauCeti.Probability.map_coe_apply_inverseWishartMeasure: the diagonal entries of an inverse-Wishart matrix are inverse gamma.TauCeti.Probability.map_inv_inv_apply_nonsingularWishartMeasure: the reciprocal diagonal entries of the inverse of a Wishart matrix are scaled chi-squared.TauCeti.Probability.quantile_map_coe_apply_inverseWishartMeasure: the diagonal quantiles.TauCeti.Probability.hasLaw_coe_apply_inverseWishartMeasureandTauCeti.Probability.hasLaw_inv_inv_apply_nonsingularWishartMeasure: the corresponding statements for random matrices.
References #
- R. J. Muirhead, Aspects of Multivariate Statistical Theory, Wiley, 1982, Theorem 3.2.10 and Section 3.2.2.
- M. L. Eaton, Multivariate Statistics: A Vector Space Approach, IMS Lecture Notes 53, chapter 8.
The diagonal entries of an inverse-Wishart matrix are inverse gamma. For a
positive-definite scale S, the entry (i, i) of an inverse-Wishart matrix of degree n has the
inverse-gamma law of shape (n - p + 1) / 2 and scale S i i / 2. For degrees at most p - 1
both sides are the zero measure.
The reciprocal diagonal entries of an inverted Wishart matrix are scaled chi-squared. If
W is Wishart of degree n > p - 1 and positive-definite scale S⁻¹, the reciprocal of the
diagonal entry (W⁻¹) i i, which is the Schur complement in W of the principal block away from
i (Matrix.PosDef.inv_inv_apply_self_eq_sub), has the law of (S i i)⁻¹ times a chi-squared
variable with n - p + 1 degrees of freedom.
Diagonal quantiles #
The quantile of a diagonal entry of an inverse-Wishart matrix of positive-definite scale S
is the inverse-gamma quantile of shape (n - p + 1) / 2 and scale S i i / 2.
The diagonal quantiles of an inverse-Wishart matrix tend to zero as the level tends to zero from above.
The diagonal quantiles of an inverse-Wishart matrix tend to positive infinity as the level tends to one from below.
A diagonal entry of a random inverse-Wishart matrix of positive-definite scale S has the
inverse-gamma law of shape (n - p + 1) / 2 and scale S i i / 2.
For a random Wishart matrix W of degree n > p - 1 and positive-definite scale S⁻¹, the
reciprocal of the diagonal entry (W⁻¹) i i has the law of (S i i)⁻¹ times a chi-squared
variable with n - p + 1 degrees of freedom.