Radial-ratio independence of two half-normal variables

ID: radial-ratio-independence-of-two-half-normal-variables

If are independent with density on the positive axis, the Jacobian matrix of the inverse transformation has determinant . The joint density is for , factoring into an exponential distribution for and a unit-scale half-Cauchy distribution for . The underlying radial symmetry makes radius and angle independent.

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