Normal-Wishart distribution

Normal-Wishart
Notation	$({\boldsymbol \mu },{\boldsymbol \Lambda })\sim {\mathrm {NW}}({\boldsymbol \mu }_{0},\lambda ,{\mathbf {W}},\nu )$
Parameters	${\boldsymbol \mu }_{0}\in {\mathbb {R}}^{D}\,$ location (vector of real) $\lambda >0\,$ (real) ${\mathbf {W}}\in {\mathbb {R}}^{{D\times D}}$ scale matrix (pos. def.) $\nu >D-1\,$ (real)
Support	${\boldsymbol \mu }\in {\mathbb {R}}^{D};{\boldsymbol \Lambda }\in {\mathbb {R}}^{{D\times D}}$ covariance matrix (pos. def.)
PDF	$f({\boldsymbol \mu },{\boldsymbol \Lambda }\|{\boldsymbol \mu }_{0},\lambda ,{\mathbf {W}},\nu )={\mathcal {N}}({\boldsymbol \mu }\|{\boldsymbol \mu }_{0},(\lambda {\boldsymbol \Lambda })^{{-1}})\ {\mathcal {W}}({\boldsymbol \Lambda }\|{\mathbf {W}},\nu )$

In probability theory and statistics, the normal-Wishart distribution (or Gaussian-Wishart distribution) is a multivariate four-parameter family of continuous probability distributions. It is the conjugate prior of a multivariate normal distribution with unknown mean and precision matrix (the inverse of the covariance matrix).^[1]

Definition

Suppose

{\boldsymbol \mu }|{\boldsymbol \mu }_{0},\lambda ,{\boldsymbol \Lambda }\sim {\mathcal {N}}({\boldsymbol \mu }|{\boldsymbol \mu }_{0},(\lambda {\boldsymbol \Lambda })^{{-1}})

has a multivariate normal distribution with mean ${\boldsymbol {\mu }}_{0}$ and covariance matrix $(\lambda {\boldsymbol \Lambda })^{{-1}}$ , where

{\boldsymbol \Lambda }|{\mathbf {W}},\nu \sim {\mathcal {W}}({\boldsymbol \Lambda }|{\mathbf {W}},\nu )

has a Wishart distribution. Then $({\boldsymbol \mu },{\boldsymbol \Lambda })$ has a normal-Wishart distribution, denoted as

({\boldsymbol \mu },{\boldsymbol \Lambda })\sim {\mathrm {NW}}({\boldsymbol \mu }_{0},\lambda ,{\mathbf {W}},\nu ).

Characterization

Probability density function

f({\boldsymbol \mu },{\boldsymbol \Lambda }|{\boldsymbol \mu }_{0},\lambda ,{\mathbf {W}},\nu )={\mathcal {N}}({\boldsymbol \mu }|{\boldsymbol \mu }_{0},(\lambda {\boldsymbol \Lambda })^{{-1}})\ {\mathcal {W}}({\boldsymbol \Lambda }|{\mathbf {W}},\nu )

Properties

Marginal distributions

By construction, the marginal distribution over ${\boldsymbol {\Lambda }}$ is a Wishart distribution, and the conditional distribution over $\boldsymbol\mu$ given ${\boldsymbol {\Lambda }}$ is a multivariate normal distribution. The marginal distribution over $\boldsymbol\mu$ is a multivariate t-distribution.

Generating normal-Wishart random variates

Generation of random variates is straightforward:

Sample ${\boldsymbol {\Lambda }}$ from a Wishart distribution with parameters $\mathbf {W}$ and $\nu$
Sample $\boldsymbol\mu$ from a multivariate normal distribution with mean ${\boldsymbol {\mu }}_{0}$ and variance $(\lambda {\boldsymbol \Lambda })^{{-1}}$

Related distributions

The normal-inverse Wishart distribution is essentially the same distribution parameterized by variance rather than precision.
The normal-gamma distribution is the one-dimensional equivalent.
The multivariate normal distribution and Wishart distribution are the component distributions out of which this distribution is made.

Notes

↑ Bishop, Christopher M. (2006). Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning. Springer Science+Business Media. Page 690.

References

Bishop, Christopher M. (2006). Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning. Springer Science+Business Media.

Probability distributions

List

Discrete univariate with finite support	Benford Bernoulli beta-binomial binomial categorical hypergeometric Poisson binomial Rademacher discrete uniform Zipf Zipf–Mandelbrot

Discrete univariate with infinite support	beta negative binomial Borel Conway–Maxwell–Poisson discrete phase-type Delaporte extended negative binomial Gauss–Kuzmin geometric logarithmic negative binomial parabolic fractal Poisson Skellam Yule–Simon zeta

Continuous univariate supported on a bounded interval	arcsine ARGUS Balding–Nichols Bates beta beta rectangular Irwin–Hall Kumaraswamy logit-normal noncentral beta raised cosine reciprocal triangular U-quadratic uniform Wigner semicircle

Continuous univariate supported on a semi-infinite interval	Benini Benktander 1st kind Benktander 2nd kind beta prime Burr chi-squared chi Dagum Davis exponential-logarithmic Erlang exponential F folded normal Flory–Schulz Fréchet gamma gamma/Gompertz generalized inverse Gaussian Gompertz half-logistic half-normal Hotelling's T-squared hyper-Erlang hyperexponential hypoexponential inverse chi-squared scaled inverse chi-squared inverse Gaussian inverse gamma Kolmogorov Lévy log-Cauchy log-Laplace log-logistic log-normal Lomax matrix-exponential Maxwell–Boltzmann Maxwell–Jüttner Mittag-Leffler Nakagami noncentral chi-squared Pareto phase-type poly-Weibull Rayleigh relativistic Breit–Wigner Rice shifted Gompertz truncated normal type-2 Gumbel Weibull Discrete Weibull Wilks's lambda

Continuous univariate supported on the whole real line	Cauchy exponential power Fisher's z Gaussian q generalized normal generalized hyperbolic geometric stable Gumbel Holtsmark hyperbolic secant Johnson's S_U Landau Laplace asymmetric Laplace logistic noncentral t normal (Gaussian) normal-inverse Gaussian skew normal slash stable Student's t type-1 Gumbel Tracy–Widom variance-gamma Voigt

Continuous univariate with support whose type varies	generalized extreme value generalized Pareto Tukey lambda q-Gaussian q-exponential q-Weibull shifted log-logistic

Mixed continuous-discrete univariate	rectified Gaussian

Multivariate (joint)	Discrete Ewens multinomial Dirichlet-multinomial negative multinomial Continuous Dirichlet generalized Dirichlet multivariate normal multivariate stable multivariate t normal-inverse-gamma normal-gamma Matrix-valued inverse matrix gamma inverse-Wishart matrix normal matrix t matrix gamma normal-inverse-Wishart normal-Wishart Wishart

Directional	Univariate (circular) directional Circular uniform univariate von Mises wrapped normal wrapped Cauchy wrapped exponential wrapped asymmetric Laplace wrapped Lévy Bivariate (spherical) Kent Bivariate (toroidal) bivariate von Mises Multivariate von Mises–Fisher Bingham

Degenerate and singular	Degenerate Dirac delta function Singular Cantor

Families	Circular compound Poisson elliptical exponential natural exponential location-scale maximum entropy mixture Pearson Tweedie wrapped

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