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Goodness-of-fit test for tail copulas modeled by elliptical copulas

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  • Li, Deyuan
  • Peng, Liang

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Modeling and estimating a tail copula play an important role in forecasting rare events. Due to their easy simulation, elliptical copulas have been employed in risk management. Recently, Klppelberg, [Klppelber, C., Kuhn, G., Peng, L., 2007. Estimating the tail dependence function of an elliptical distribution. Bernoulli 13 (1), 229-251; Klppelberg, C., Kuhn, G., Peng, L., 2008. Semi-parametric models for the multivariate tail dependence function--the asymptotically dependent case. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics 35, 701-718] proposed to model a tail copula by an elliptical copula, which results in an explicit parametric model for the tail copula. In this paper, we propose a goodness-of-fit test for such a parametric model and some real data analyses show that this fitting cannot be rejected. Therefore we demonstrate the practical applicability of this model.

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  • Li, Deyuan & Peng, Liang, 2009. "Goodness-of-fit test for tail copulas modeled by elliptical copulas," Statistics & Probability Letters, Elsevier, vol. 79(8), pages 1097-1104, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:stapro:v:79:y:2009:i:8:p:1097-1104
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