Decomposition and graphical correspondence analysis of checkerboard copulas

Grothe Oliver and Rieger Jonas ()
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Grothe Oliver: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Operations Research, Analytics and Statistics, Kaiserstr. 12, 76137 Karlsruhe, Germany
Rieger Jonas: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Operations Research, Analytics and Statistics, Kaiserstr. 12, 76137 Karlsruhe, Germany

Dependence Modeling, 2024, vol. 12, issue 1, 31

Abstract: We analyze optimal low-rank approximations and correspondence analysis of the dependence structure given by arbitrary bivariate checkerboard copulas. Methodologically, we make use of the truncation of singular value decompositions of doubly stochastic matrices representing the copulas. The resulting (truncated) representations of the dependence structures are sparse, in particular, compared to the number of squares on the checkerboard. The additive structure of the decomposition carries through to statistical functionals of the copula, such as Kendall’s τ \tau or Spearman’s ρ \rho , and also motivates similarity measures for checkerboard copulas. We link our analysis to continuous decompositions of copula densities and copula-generating algorithms and discuss further general properties of the decomposition and its truncation. For example, truncated series might lack nonnegativity, and approximation errors increase for monotonicity-like copulas. We provide algorithms and extensions that account for and counteract these properties. The low-rank representation is illustrated for various copula examples, and some analytical results are derived. The resulting correspondence analysis profile plots are analyzed, providing graphical insights into the dependence structure implied by the copula. An illustration is provided with an empirical data set on fuel injector spray characteristics in jet engines.

Keywords: correspondence analysis; checkerboard copulas; measures of concordance; singular value decomposition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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