# What is the marginal distribution of a single draw from the Normal-Inverse-Wishart prior?

Let $X \sim N_q(\mu, \Sigma)$ with a Normal-Inverse-Wishart prior on $(\mu, \Sigma)$ i.e. $(\mu, \Sigma) \sim N_q(\mu | m, \Sigma / k) IW_q(\Sigma | \nu, \Lambda)$ where we are using the Inverse Wishart paramaterization that gives $E [\Sigma] = \frac{\Lambda^{-1}}{\nu - q -1}$.

I need the marginal distribution of $X$; I think it should be multivariate $t$ but I'm not sure. I know that if I observed $X_1, ..., X_n$ then the posterior of $\mu$ is multivariate $t$ and that the posterior predictive distribution of $X_{n+1}$ is also multivariate $t$. But I'm not so good with the calculations to get the marginal of a single $X$ under the Normal-Inverse-Wishart and I can't find it derived anywhere.

Hopefully someone knows this off the top of their head; I don't need a derivation although a reference would be good.

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You can find this result in the wikipedia article Conjugate prior. I hope this helps. –  user10525 May 29 '12 at 9:13