Neddie Posted February 17, 2012 Posted February 17, 2012 I have a mixture of multivariate normal distributions, and I want to compute the integral with the first element of the input vector varying between specified limits, and the other elements varying from -infinity to +infinity. See attached pdf for equations. I've done it numerically but would like an analytic solution. Any advice? Thanks! And here's the pdf.intMix2.pdf
DrRocket Posted February 23, 2012 Posted February 23, 2012 I have a mixture of multivariate normal distributions, and I want to compute the integral with the first element of the input vector varying between specified limits, and the other elements varying from -infinity to +infinity. See attached pdf for equations. I've done it numerically but would like an analytic solution. Any advice? Thanks! And here's the pdf.intMix2.pdf The gaussian is integrable in closed form from -infinity to + infinity (using polar coordinates and a "trick") but there is in general no closed form expression for the integral of a gaussian over a finite interval. You are stuck with numerical approximations or,what is equivalent, with tables.
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