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Flexible Copula Density Estimation with Penalized Hierarchical B‐splines
Author(s) -
Kauermann Göran,
Schellhase Christian,
Ruppert David
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.359
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1467-9469
pISSN - 0303-6898
DOI - 10.1111/sjos.12018
Subject(s) - mathematics , copula (linguistics) , spline (mechanical) , tensor product , curse of dimensionality , mathematical optimization , econometrics , statistics , pure mathematics , structural engineering , engineering
The paper introduces a new method for flexible spline fitting for copula density estimation. Spline coefficients are penalized to achieve a smooth fit. To weaken the curse of dimensionality, instead of a full tensor spline basis, a reduced tensor product based on so called sparse grids (Notes Numer. Fluid Mech. Multidiscip. Des., 31, 1991, 241‐251) is used. To achieve uniform margins of the copula density, linear constraints are placed on the spline coefficients, and quadratic programming is used to fit the model. Simulations and practical examples accompany the presentation.