Title
Nonparametric estimation of pair-copula constructions with the empirical pair-copula.
Abstract
A pair-copula construction is a decomposition of a multivariate copula into a structured system, called regular vine, of bivariate copulae or pair-copulae. The standard practice is to model these pair-copulae parametrically, inducing a model risk, with errors potentially propagating throughout the vine structure. The empirical pair-copula provides a nonparametric alternative, which is conjectured to still achieve the parametric convergence rate. Its main advantage for the user is that it does not require the choice of parametric models for each of the pair-copulae constituting the construction. It can be used as a basis for inference on dependence measures, for selecting an appropriate vine structure, and for testing for conditional independence.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1016/j.csda.2014.10.020
Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Keywords
Field
DocType
independence,resampling,smoothing,model selection,spearman rank correlation
Econometrics,Parametric model,Copula (linguistics),Conditional independence,Model selection,Nonparametric statistics,Parametric statistics,Statistics,Bivariate analysis,Resampling,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
84
C
0167-9473
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.67
5
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ingrid Hobæk Haff150.67
Johan Segers24110.37