Archimedean survival processes

Edward Hoyle and Levent Ali Mengütürk

Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 2013, vol. 115, issue C, 1-15

Abstract: Archimedean copulas are popular in the world of multivariate modelling as a result of their breadth, tractability, and flexibility. McNeil and Nešlehová (2009) [12] showed that the class of Archimedean copulas coincides with the class of positive multivariate ℓ1-norm symmetric distributions. Building upon their results, we introduce a class of multivariate Markov processes that we call ‘Archimedean survival processes’ (ASPs). An ASP is defined over a finite time interval, is equivalent in law to a vector of independent gamma processes, and its terminal value has an Archimedean survival copula. There exists a bijection from the class of ASPs to the class of Archimedean copulas. We provide various characterisations of ASPs, and a generalisation.

Keywords: Archimedean copula; Gamma process; Gamma bridge; Multivariate Liouville distribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jmva.2012.09.008

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