Studentised coefficient pivot

Corollary taught in Bayesian linear regression, part of Bayesian statistics

Studentised coefficient pivot

Type Corollary
Taught in Bayesian linear regression
Part Bayesian statistics

\frac{\widehat\beta_j-\beta_j}{s\sqrt{c_{jj}}} \sim t_{n-p}. Thus \widehat{\boldsymbol{\beta}} itself has the normal distribution Equation (10) in Bayesian linear regression; the Student distribution appears only after replacing the unknown \sigma by s and standardising.

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See also

Normal distribution · Gaussian linear model · Error and residual · Ordinary least squares · Sampling distribution of the OLS estimator · Least-squares decomposition · Conditional coefficient posterior · Marginal variance posterior

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