Construction of Data Models by Means of Hierarchical Archimedean Copulas

Abstract

This dissertation work explores various approaches to hierarchical Archimedean copula estimation. In particular, efficient estimation algorithms are proposed and experimentally tested on simulated data. As an application, a new set of Bayesian classifiers based on hierarchical Archimedean copulas is constructed and experimentally compared with other popular classifiers in terms of accuracy.

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Import 04/11/2015
Import 02/11/2016

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copula, hierarchical Archimedean copula, copula estimation, structure determination, Archimedean family of copulas, Kendall's tau, goodness-of-fit, Bayesian classification

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