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Extreme-Value Copulas

Statistics Theory 2009-12-07 v2 Statistics Theory

Abstract

Being the limits of copulas of componentwise maxima in independent random samples, extreme-value copulas can be considered to provide appropriate models for the dependence structure between rare events. Extreme-value copulas not only arise naturally in the domain of extreme-value theory, they can also be a convenient choice to model general positive dependence structures. The aim of this survey is to present the reader with the state-of-the-art in dependence modeling via extreme-value copulas. Both probabilistic and statistical issues are reviewed, in a nonparametric as well as a parametric context.

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@article{arxiv.0911.1015,
  title  = {Extreme-Value Copulas},
  author = {Gordon Gudendorf and Johan Segers},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0911.1015},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

20 pages, 3 figures. Minor revision, typos corrected. To appear in F. Durante, W. Haerdle, P. Jaworski, and T. Rychlik (editors) "Workshop on Copula Theory and its Applications", Lecture Notes in Statistics -- Proceedings, Springer 2010

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