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mvtLogLikelihood: Multivariate t log-likelihood

Description

The log-likelihood function for a point in the multivariate t (MVT) distribution.

Usage

mvtLogLikelihood(x, mu, Sigma, nu)

Value

the normalised log-likelihood of x in a MVT distribution with parameters mu, Sigma and nu.

Arguments

x

- vector; the sample to calculate the log likelihood of.

mu

- vector; the mean parameter of the MVT distribution.

Sigma

- matrix; the scale matrix of the MVT distribution.

nu

- double; the degrees of freedom for the MVT distribution.