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On the density of the sum of two independent Student t-random vectors

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  • Berg, C.
  • Vignat, C.

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In this paper, we find an expression for the density of the sum of two independent d-dimensional Student t-random vectors and with arbitrary degrees of freedom. As a byproduct we also obtain an expression for the density of the sum , where is normal and is an independent Student t-vector. In both cases the density is given as an infinite series where fn is a sequence of probability densities on and (cn) is a sequence of positive numbers of sum 1, i.e. the distribution of a non-negative integer-valued random variable C, which turns out to be infinitely divisible for d=1 and d=2. When d=1 and the degrees of freedom of the Student variables are equal, we recover an old result of Ruben.

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  • Berg, C. & Vignat, C., 2010. "On the density of the sum of two independent Student t-random vectors," Statistics & Probability Letters, Elsevier, vol. 80(13-14), pages 1043-1055, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:stapro:v:80:y:2010:i:13-14:p:1043-1055
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