Copulas are full measures of dependence among components of random vectors. Unlike the marginal and the joint distributions, which are directly observable, a copula is a hidden dependence structure that couples a joint distribution with its marginals. This makes the task of proposing a parametric copula model non-trivial and is where a nonparametric estimator can play a significant role. In thi...

Copula is a function which can link two or more marginal distributions together to form a joint distribution. This paper aims to analyze the dependence between Shanghai and Shenzhen stock markets using copula theory based on GARCH. We use the synchronous 100 times daily returns data and copula based GARCH to model the joint distribution of stock index returns because copula based GARCH can fit ...

One main complexity of the copula constructions concerns a mismatch between morphology and syntactic constituency: the copula seems to form a morphological unit with the immediately preceding element, whereas in terms of syntax the copula appears to take this as its syntactic complement. In capturing such mismatches, we show that the copula is treated as an independent verb at the level of tect...

In this review paper we outline some recent contributions to copula theory. Several new author's investigations are presented brie°y, namely: order statistics copula, copulas with given multivariate marginals, copula representation via a local dependence measure and applications of extreme value copulas. Key-words: Copula; Dependence measures; Extremes; Kendall distribution; Local dependence; M...

Existing works on multivariate distributions mainly focus on limited distribution functions and require that the associated marginal distributions belong to the same family. Although this simplifies problems, it may fail to deal with practical cases when the marginal distributions are arbitrary. To this end, copula function is employed since it provides a flexible way in decoupling the marginal...

We apply a copula-GARCH approach to modeling the joint distribution of excess returns of four major assets: one year and ten year Treasury bonds and S&P 500 and Nasdaq indices. We try three approaches in building the multidimensional copula for the dependence structure of multiple variables: (1) n-dimensional normal copula and n-dimensional Student’s t copula, (2) hierarchical Archimedean copul...

Copula is an important tool for modeling neural dependence. Recent work on copula has been expanded to jointly model mixed time series in neuroscience ("Hu et al., 2016, Joint Analysis of Spikes and Local Field Potentials using Copula" [1]). Here we present further data for joint analysis of spike and local field potential (LFP) with copula modeling. In particular, the details of different mode...

The copula-based modeling of multivariate distributions with continuous margins is presented as a succession of rank-based tests: a multivariate test of randomness followed by a test of mutual independence and a series of goodness-of-fit tests. All the tests under consideration are based on the empirical copula, which is a nonparametric rank-based estimator of the true unknown copula. The princ...

We tackle the challenge of efficiently learning the structure of expressive multivariate realvalued densities of copula graphical models. We start by theoretically substantiating the conjecture that for many copula families the magnitude of Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient is monotonic in the expected contribution of an edge in network, namely the negative copula entropy. We then build o...