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Correlation-Based And-Operations Can Be Copulas: A Proof

Other Statistics 2023-01-16 v1 Logic Probability Applications Computation

Abstract

In many practical situations, we know the probabilities aa and bb of two events AA and BB, and we want to estimate the joint probability Prob(A&B){\rm Prob}(A\,\&\,B). The algorithm that estimates the joint probability based on the known values aa and bb is called an and-operation. An important case when such a reconstruction is possible is when we know the correlation between AA and BB; we call the resulting and-operation correlation-based. On the other hand, in statistics, there is a widely used class of and-operations known as copulas. Empirical evidence seems to indicate that the correlation-based and-operation derived in https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08971-8_64 is a copula, but until now, no proof of this statement was available. In this paper, we provide such a proof.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2301.05507,
  title  = {Correlation-Based And-Operations Can Be Copulas: A Proof},
  author = {Enrique Miralles-Dolz and Ander Gray and Edoardo Patelli and Scott Ferson and Vladik Kreinovich and Olga Kosheleva},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.05507},
  year   = {2023}
}
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