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Comment: Lancaster Probabilities and Gibbs Sampling
Comment on ``Lancaster Probabilities and Gibbs Sampling'' [arXiv:0808.3852]Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/08-STS252A the Statistical
Science (http://www.imstat.org/sts/) by the Institute of Mathematical
Statistics (http://www.imstat.org
Wishart distributions for decomposable graphs
When considering a graphical Gaussian model Markov with
respect to a decomposable graph , the parameter space of interest for the
precision parameter is the cone of positive definite matrices with fixed
zeros corresponding to the missing edges of . The parameter space for the
scale parameter of is the cone , dual to , of
incomplete matrices with submatrices corresponding to the cliques of being
positive definite. In this paper we construct on the cones and two
families of Wishart distributions, namely the Type I and Type II Wisharts. They
can be viewed as generalizations of the hyper Wishart and the inverse of the
hyper inverse Wishart as defined by Dawid and Lauritzen [Ann. Statist. 21
(1993) 1272--1317]. We show that the Type I and II Wisharts have properties
similar to those of the hyper and hyper inverse Wishart. Indeed, the inverse of
the Type II Wishart forms a conjugate family of priors for the covariance
parameter of the graphical Gaussian model and is strong directed hyper Markov
for every direction given to the graph by a perfect order of its cliques, while
the Type I Wishart is weak hyper Markov. Moreover, the inverse Type II Wishart
as a conjugate family presents the advantage of having a multidimensional shape
parameter, thus offering flexibility for the choice of a prior.Comment: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009053606000001235 in the
Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of
Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org
Gaussian approximation of Gaussian scale mixture
For a given positive random variable and a given
independent of , we compute the scalar such that the distance between
and in the sense, is minimal. We also
consider the same problem in several dimensions when is a random positive
definite matrix.Comment: 13 page
The randomization by Wishart laws and the Fisher information
Consider the centered Gaussian vector in with covariance matrix Randomize such that has a Wishart distribution
with shape parameter and mean We compute the density
of as well as the Fisher information of the
model when is the parameter. For using the
Cram\'er-Rao inequality, we also compute the inverse of . The
important point of this note is the fact that this inverse is a linear
combination of two simple operators on the space of symmetric matrices, namely
and . The Fisher information itself is a linear
combination and Finally, by
randomizing itself, we make explicit the minoration of the second
moments of an estimator of by the Van Trees inequality: here again,
linear combinations of and appear in the results.Comment: 11 page
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