MomTrunc (version 6.0)

MCmeanvarTMD: Monte Carlo Mean and variance for doubly truncated multivariate distributions

Description

It computes the Monte Carlo mean vector and variance-covariance matrix for some doubly truncated skew-elliptical distributions. Monte Carlo simulations are performed via slice Sampling. It supports the p-variate Normal, Skew-normal (SN), Extended Skew-normal (ESN) and Unified Skew-normal (SUN) as well as the Student's-t, Skew-t (ST), Extended Skew-t (EST) and Unified Skew-t (SUT) distribution.

Usage

MCmeanvarTMD(lower = rep(-Inf,length(mu)),upper = rep(Inf,length(mu)),mu,Sigma
,lambda = NULL,tau = NULL,Gamma = NULL,nu = NULL,dist,n = 10000)

Arguments

lower

the vector of lower limits of length \(p\).

upper

the vector of upper limits of length \(p\).

mu

a numeric vector of length \(p\) representing the location parameter.

Sigma

a numeric positive definite matrix with dimension \(p\)x\(p\) representing the scale parameter.

lambda

a numeric matrix of dimension \(p\)x\(q\) representing the skewness/shape matrix parameter for the SUN and SUT distribution. For the ESN and EST distributions (\(q=1\)), lambda is a numeric vector of dimension \(p\) (see examples at the end of this help). If all(lambda == 0), the SUN/ESN/SN (SUT/EST/ST) reduces to a normal (t) symmetric distribution.

tau

a numeric vector of length \(q\) representing the extension parameter for the SUN and SUT distribution. For the ESN and EST distributions, tau is a positive scalar (\(q=1\)). Furthermore, if tau == 0, the ESN (EST) reduces to a SN (ST) distribution.

Gamma

a correlation matrix with dimension \(q\)x\(q\). It must be provided only for the SUN and SUT cases. For particular cases SN, ESN, ST and EST, we have that Gamma == 1 (see examples at the end of this help).

nu

It represents the degrees of freedom for the Student's t-distribution being a positive real number.

dist

represents the truncated distribution to be used. The values are normal, SN , ESN and SUN for the doubly truncated Normal, Skew-normal, Extended Skew-normal and Unified-skew normal distributions and, t, ST , EST and SUT for the for the doubly truncated Student-t, Skew-t, Extended Skew-t and Unified skew-t distributions.

n

number of Monte Carlo samples to be generated.

Value

It returns a list with three elements:

mean

the estimate for the mean vector of length \(p\)

EYY

the estimate for the second moment matrix of dimensions \(p\)x\(p\)

varcov

the estimate for the variance-covariance matrix of dimensions \(p\)x\(p\)

References

Arellano-Valle, R. B. & Genton, M. G. (2005). On fundamental skew distributions. Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 96, 93-116.

Ho, H. J., Lin, T. I., Chen, H. Y., & Wang, W. L. (2012). Some results on the truncated multivariate t distribution. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 142(1), 25-40.

See Also

meanvarTMD, rmvSN,rmvESN,rmvST, rmvEST

Examples

# NOT RUN {
a = c(-0.8,-0.7,-0.6)
b = c(0.5,0.6,0.7)
mu = c(0.1,0.2,0.3)
Sigma = matrix(data = c(1,0.2,0.3,0.2,1,0.4,0.3,0.4,1),
               nrow = length(mu),ncol = length(mu),byrow = TRUE)


## Normal case

# Theoretical value
value1 = meanvarTMD(a,b,mu,Sigma,dist="normal")

#MC estimate
MC11 = MCmeanvarTMD(a,b,mu,Sigma,dist="normal") #by defalut n = 10000
MC12 = MCmeanvarTMD(a,b,mu,Sigma,dist="normal",n = 10^5) #more precision

## Skew-t case
 
# Theoretical value
value2 = meanvarTMD(a,b,mu,Sigma,lambda = c(-2,0,1),nu = 4,dist = "ST")

#MC estimate
MC21 = MCmeanvarTMD(a,b,mu,Sigma,lambda = c(-2,0,1),nu = 4,dist = "ST")

## More...

MC5 = MCmeanvarTMD(a,b,mu,Sigma,lambda = c(-2,0,1),tau = 1,dist = "ESN")
MC6 = MCmeanvarTMD(a,b,mu,Sigma,lambda = c(-2,0,1),tau = 1,nu = 4,dist = "EST")

# }
# NOT RUN {
#Skew-unified Normal (SUN) and Skew-unified t (SUT) distributions

Lambda = matrix(c(1,0,2,-3,0,-1),3,2) #A skewness matrix p times q
Gamma  = matrix(c(1,-0.5,-0.5,1),2,2) #A correlation matrix q times q
tau    = c(-1,2)                      #A vector of extension parameters of dim q

MC7 = MCmeanvarTMD(a,b,mu,Sigma,lambda = Lambda,tau = c(-1,2),Gamma = Gamma,dist = "SUN")
MC8 = MCmeanvarTMD(a,b,mu,Sigma,lambda = Lambda,tau = c(-1,2),Gamma = Gamma,nu = 1,dist = "SUT")
# }