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INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL REVIEW
Volume 73, Issue 1, Pages 111-129Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-5823.2005.tb00254.x
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copula; multivariate t distribution; Kendall's rank correlation; tail dependence; multivariate extreme value theory; Gumbel copula; Clayton copula
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The t copula and its properties are described with a focus on issues related to the dependence of extreme values. The Gaussian mixture representation of a multivariate t distribution is used as a starting point to construct two new copulas, the skewed t copula and the grouped t copula, which allow more heterogeneity in the modelling of dependent observations. Extreme value considerations are used to derive two further new copulas: the t extreme value copula is the limiting copula of componentwise maxima of t distributed random vectors; the t lower tail copula is the limiting copula of bivariate observations from a t distribution that are conditioned to lie below some joint threshold that is progressively lowered. Both these copulas may be approximated for practical purposes by simpler, better-known copulas, these being the Gumbel and Clayton copulas respectively.
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