Matrix hypergeometric function and its application to computation of characteristic function of spherically symmetric distributions with phase-type amplitude
Authors:
- Marek Nałęcz
Abstract
The paper presents a new definition of a matrix-valued Gauss hypergeometric function2F1of a matrix argument. Theproposed function is applied in the context of computing a characteristic function for spherically symmetric randomvectors whose amplitude has phase-type distribution. It is proved that the characteristic function can be expressedas a specialized case of the Gauss hypergeometric function with the argument related to a matrix representation ofthe phase-type distribution. Then it is shown that this specialized case of the2F1function can be evaluated by usingclosed-form formulas, which involve only elementary functions and thus can reliably be computed numerically fora matrix argument. Explicit formulas are derived for the moments of the spherically symmetric distribution underconsideration. As a by-product of the research, an erratum to the tables of special functions is proposed.
- Record ID
- WUTfe113415fca84cb9911ad0ad92ea141f
- Author
- Journal series
- Statistics & Probability Letters, ISSN 0167-7152, e-ISSN 1879-2103
- Issue year
- 2021
- Vol
- 173
- Pages
- 1-8
- Publication size in sheets
- 0.50
- Article number
- 109062
- Keywords in English
- 2010 MSC:60E10, 15A16, 33C05spherically symmetric random vectors, phase-type distributions, characteristic function, special functions,generalized Gauss hypergeometric function
- ASJC Classification
- ;
- DOI
- DOI:10.1016/j.spl.2021.109062 Opening in a new tab
- URL
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167715221000249?via%3Dihub Opening in a new tab
- Language
- (en) English
- Score (nominal)
- 70
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- journalList
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- = 0; = 0; : 2017 = 0.864; : 2020 (2 years) = 0.870 - 2020 (5 years) =0.905
- Uniform Resource Identifier
- https://repo.pw.edu.pl/info/article/WUTfe113415fca84cb9911ad0ad92ea141f/
- URN
urn:pw-repo:WUTfe113415fca84cb9911ad0ad92ea141f
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