aDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL 32514, United States
bDepartment of Biostatistics and Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, United States
Abstract:
In this paper we describe an exterior product method for computing the Jacobian of a transformation. This alternative procedure is often simpler than the conventional determinant approach. We illustrate the proposed method via commonly used transformations in statistical distribution theory.