Nonparametric Estimation and Inference for the Copula Parameter in Conditional Copulas

The primary aim of this thesis is the elucidation of covariate effects on the dependence structure of random variables in bivariate or multivariate models. We develop a unified approach via a conditional copula model in which the copula is parametric and its parameter varies as the covariate. We pro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Acar, Elif Fidan
Other Authors: Craiu, Radu V.
Language:en_ca
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/25916