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Modelling with parameter mixture copulas

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hank you for your interest in my thesis. This CD-ROM is a collection of supplementary material relating to my thesis, titled Modelling with parameter mixture copulas. This thesis was written in 2006 at the University of Sydney as a component of the Bachlor of Commerce (Honours) program.

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Thesis

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Modelling with parameter mixture copulas
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Acknowledgements
PDF 12 KB

Abstract
PDF 12 KB

  1. Introduction
    PDF 70 KB

  2. Copulas and mixture copulas [show/hide details]
    PDF 372 KB

    1. Copulas

    2. Sklar's theorem

    3. Families of Copulas

    4. Dependence Coverage

    5. Modelling using copulas

    6. Parameter-mixing

    7. Parameter-mixing applied to copulas
       

  3. Properties of mixture copulas [show/hide details]
    PDF 237 KB

    1. Overview

    2. Example of mixture copulas

    3. Equivalent functional form

    4. Identification

    5. Dependence measure

    6. Dependence structures covered

    7. Informative mixing
       

  4. Simulation [show/hide details]
    PDF 120 KB

    1. Overview

    2. Simulation algorithms

    3. Estimation

    4. Comparing results from mixture copulas with parent copulas

    5. Comparing results at different dependence levels
       

  5. Application [show/hide details]
    PDF 1653 KB

    1. Overview

    2. NBA Data

    3. Estimation

    4. Estimated marginal distributions

    5. Comparing mixture copulas with parent copulas

    6. Effect of partitioning
       

  6. Conclusion [show/hide details]
    PDF  62 KB

    1. Further research

    2. Conclusion

    3. Note on appendices

Bibliography
PDF 62 KB

Presentation

Modelling with parameter mixture copulas - Thesis presentation   Microsoft Powerpoint Presentation 2840 KB
Thesis presentation as presented to the Discipline of Econometrics and Business Statistics, 6 Oct 2006

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Data

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Mathematica codes and results

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Simulations

Application

Miscellaenous

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