Modeling Longitudinal Data Using a Pair-Copula Decomposition of Serial Dependence
利用成对 Copula 分解序列依赖的纵向数据建模
Copulas have proven to be very successful tools for the flexible modeling of cross-sectional dependence. In this paper we express the dependence structure of continuous-valued time series data using a sequence of bivariate copulas. This corresponds to a type of decomposition recently called a “vine” in the graphical models literature, where each copula is entitled a “pair-copula.” We propose a Bayesian approach for the estimation of this dependence structure for longitudinal…