Copula density estimation by total variation penalized likelihood with linear equality constraints

A copula density is the joint probability density function (PDF) of a random vector with uniform marginals. An approach to bivariate copula density estimation is introduced that is based on maximum penalized likelihood estimation (MPLE) with a total variation (TV) penalty term. The marginal unity an...

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Veröffentlicht in:Computational statistics & data analysis Jg. 56; H. 2; S. 384 - 398
Hauptverfasser: Qu, Leming, Yin, Wotao
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 01.02.2012
Elsevier
Schriftenreihe:Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
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ISSN:0167-9473, 1872-7352
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Zusammenfassung:A copula density is the joint probability density function (PDF) of a random vector with uniform marginals. An approach to bivariate copula density estimation is introduced that is based on maximum penalized likelihood estimation (MPLE) with a total variation (TV) penalty term. The marginal unity and symmetry constraints for copula density are enforced by linear equality constraints. The TV-MPLE subject to linear equality constraints is solved by an augmented Lagrangian and operator-splitting algorithm. It offers an order of magnitude improvement in computational efficiency over another TV-MPLE method without constraints solved by the log-barrier method for the second order cone program. A data-driven selection of the regularization parameter is through K-fold cross-validation (CV). Simulation and real data application show the effectiveness of the proposed approach. The MATLAB code implementing the methodology is available online.
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ISSN:0167-9473
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DOI:10.1016/j.csda.2011.07.016