Let $\left\lbrace x_1,x_2 \right\rbrace $ be a general bi-variate dependent lognormal distribution, with means $[\mu_1,\mu_2]^T$ and covariance matrix $\Sigma = \begin{pmatrix} \sigma_1^2 & \rho\sigma_1\sigma_2\\ \rho\sigma_1\sigma_2 & \sigma_2^2 \\ \end{pmatrix}$.
The problem is to evaluate a numerical value (analytical solution is not required and probably does not exists) of CDF of the weighted sum of these two variables, $P(w_1x_1+w_2x_2\leqslant\alpha)$, where $w_1$ and $w_2$ are real and non-negative.
Simplifying assumptions, such as $\mu_1=\mu_2$ and/or $\sigma_1=\sigma_2$ may be used, if necessary.
Solution in either Mathematica or Matlab will be appreciated.
For example,
s1=0.3;
s2=0.3;
m1 = 0;
m2 = 0;
rho=0.5;
c={{s1^2,rho s1 s2},{rho s1 s2,s2^2}}
dist = LogMultinormalDistribution[{m1, m2}, c];
Plot3D[Evaluate@{PDF[dist,{x,y}]},{x,0,3},{y,0,3},PlotRange->All]
PDF[dist, {x, y}]
shows excellent graph.
- Unfortunately, I do not know how to create the new variable $y=x_1+x_2$ by
TransformedDistribution
without using
MarginalDistribution
first, since it provides two independent distributions.