Construction of bivariate S-distributions with copulas

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1822-1839

  Yu, Lining ^a   Voit, Eberhard O ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Archimedean copula; Bivariate S distribution; Copula; Marginal; S distribution

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ARCHIMEDEAN COPULA; BIVARIATE S-DISTRIBUTION; COPULA; MARGINALS; S-DISTRIBUTION;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

EID: 33750729245     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2005.11.021     Document Type: Article

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