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A note on the characteristic function of the t-distribution

✍ Scribed by I. Dreier; S. Kotz

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2002
Tongue
English
Weight
71 KB
Volume
57
Category
Article
ISSN
0167-7152

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✦ Synopsis

Utilizing the theory of positive deΓΏnite densities we express the density of a t-random variable as the characteristic function of a convolution of two Gamma-variables. This allows us to obtain a simple interpretation and an expression for the characteristic function of the t-variable.

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