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The paper is devoted to relations between the matrix GIG and Wishart distributions. Our basic tool in the first part is a version of the Matsumoto-Yor property for matrix variables. This approach covers the following issues: the Herz identity for the Bessel function of matrix variate argument, characterization of a class of Wishart matrices and linear transformations of the matrix GIG distribution. The Bayesian Wishart model, studied in the second part, gives an alternative definition of the matrix GIG distribution. Such a model is characterized by linearity of conditional expectations and matrix GIG conditional distribution. It is also extended to Bayesian matrix GIG models, in the framework of which an interesting independence property is proved.
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Seshadri, V., Wesołowski, J. More on connections between Wishart and matrix GIG distributions. Metrika 68, 219–232 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00184-007-0154-3
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