Differentiability of t-functionals of location and scatter

The paper aims at finding widely and smoothly defined nonparametric location and scatter functionals. As a convenient vehicle, maximum likelihood estimation of the location vector μ and scatter matrix Σ of an elliptically symmetric t distribution on ℝd with degrees of freedom ν>1 extends to an M-...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Dudley, Richard M., Sidenko, Sergiy, Wang, Zuoqin
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute of Mathematical Statistics 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/63108
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6195-4161