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Computational Challenges of t and Related Copulas
Volume 20, Issue 1 (2022), pp. 95–110
Pub. online: 2 February 2022      Type: Computing In Data Science      Open accessOpen Access
Received
5 January 2022
Accepted
6 January 2022
Published
2 February 2022

Abstract

The present paper addresses computational and numerical challenges when working with t copulas and their more complicated extensions, the grouped t and skew t copulas. We demonstrate how the R package nvmix can be used to work with these copulas. In particular, we discuss (quasi-)random sampling and fitting. We highlight the difficulties arising from using more complicated models, such as the lack of availability of a joint density function or the lack of an analytical form of the marginal quantile functions, and give possible solutions along with future research ideas.

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This paper can be reproduced with the R script reproduce.R and the R package nvmix, version 0.0-7.

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