On the Consistency of an Estimator for Hierarchical Archimedean Copulas

0446436 - ÚI 2016 RIV CZ eng C - Conference Paper (international conference)
Górecki, J. - Hofert, M. - Holeňa, Martin
On the Consistency of an Estimator for Hierarchical Archimedean Copulas.
Proceedings of 32nd International Conference Mathematical Methods in Economics MME 2014. Olomouc: Palacký University, 2014 - (Talašová, J.; Stoklasa, J.; Talášek, T.), s. 239-244. ISBN 978-80-244-4209-9.
[MME 2014. International Conference Mathematical Methods in Economics /32./. Olomouc (CZ), 10.09.2014-12.09.2014]
R&D Projects: GA ČR GA13-17187S
Grant - others:Slezská univerzita v Opavě(CZ) SGS/21/2014
Institutional support: RVO:67985807
Keywords : hierarchical Archimedean copula * Kendall distribution function * parameter estimation * structure determination * consistency
Subject RIV: IN - Informatics, Computer Science

The paper addresses an estimation procedure for hierarchical Archimedean copulas, which has been proposed in the literature. It is shown here that this estimation is not consistent in general. Furthermore, a correction is proposed, which leads to a consistent estimator.
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