Burg estimators are classically used for the estimation of the autocovariance of a stationary autoregressive process. We propose to consider scale mixtures of stationary autoregressive processes, a non-Gaussian extension of the latter. The traces of such processes are Spherically Invariant Random Vectors (SIRV) with a constraint on the scatter matrix due to the autoregressive model. We propose ...

1. The multivariate normal distribution Let X := (X1 � � � � �X�) be a random vector. We say that X is a Gaussian random vector if we can write X = μ + AZ� where μ ∈ R, A is an � × � matrix and Z := (Z1 � � � � �Z�) is a �-vector of i.i.d. standard normal random variables. Proposition 1. Let X be a Gaussian random vector, as above. Then, EX = μ� Var(X) := Σ = AA� and MX(�) = e � μ+ 1 2 �A���2 =...

A number of basic properties about circularly-symmetric Gaussian random vectors are stated and proved here. These properties are each probably well known to most researchers who work with Gaussian noise, but I have not found them stated together with simple proofs in the literature. They are usually viewed as too advanced or too detailed for elementary texts but are used (correctly or incorrect...

The cointegrated model considered here is a nonstationary vector autoregressive process in which some linear functions are stationary and others are random walks. The first difference of the process (the "error-correction form") is stationary. Statistical inference, such as reduced rank regression estimation of the coefficients of the process and tests of hypotheses of dimensionality of the sta...

in this paper, a new method is presented for the detection of defects in random textures. in the training stage, the feature vectors of the normal textures’ images are extracted by using the optimal response of gabor wavelet filters, and their probability density is estimated by means of the gaussian mixture model (gmm). in the testing stage, similar to the previous stage,at  first, the feature...

Slepian and Sudakov-Fernique type inequalities, which compare expectations of maxima of Gaussian random vectors under certain restrictions on the covariance matrices, play an important role in probability theory, especially in empirical process and extreme value theories. Here we give explicit comparisons of expectations of smooth functions and distribution functions of maxima of Gaussian rando...

A model for non-Gaussian random vectors is presented that relies on a modification of the standard translation transformation which has previously been used to model stationary non-Gaussian processes and non-Gaussian random vectors with identically distributed components. The translation model has the ability to exactly match target marginal distributions and a broad variety of correlation matr...