Modeling multivariate count data using copulas

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 172-187

  Nikoloulopoulos, Aristidis K ^a   Karlis, Dimitris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Archimedean copulas; Kendall's tau; Market basket count data; Mixtures of max id copulas; Partially symmetric copulas

Indexed keywords

ARCHIMEDEAN COPULA; CONTINUOUS DATA; COVARIATES; DATA APPLICATION; DEPENDENCE MODELING; KENDALL'S TAU; MARGINAL DISTRIBUTION; MARKET BASKET; MARKET BASKET COUNT DATA; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL REGRESSION;

PURCHASING;

EID: 77951185865     PISSN: 03610918     EISSN: 15324141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610910903391262     Document Type: Article

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