Squaring the circle and cubing the sphere: Circular and spherical copulas

Symmetry

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 574-599

  Perlman, Michael D ^a   Wellner, Jon A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bivariate distribution; Circular copula; Circular symmetry; Elliptical copula; Multivariate distribution; Spherical copula; Spherical symmetry; Unit ball; Unit disk

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860560594     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20738994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/sym3030574     Document Type: Article

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