Generalized Diagonal Band Copulas with Two-Sided Generating Densities

Copulas are joint continuous distributions with uniform marginals and have been proposed to capture probabilistic dependence between random variables. Maximum-entropy copulas introduced by Bedford and Meeuwissen (Bedford, T., A. M. H. Meeuwissen. 1997. Minimally informative distributions with given rank correlations for use in uncertainty analysis. J. Statist. Comput. Simulation57(1--4) 143--175) provide the option of making minimally informative assumptions given a degree-of-dependence constraint between two random variables. Unfortunately, their distribution functions are not available in a closed form, and their application requires the use of numerical methods. In this paper, we study a subfamily of generalized diagonal band (GDB) copulas, separately introduced by Ferguson (Ferguson, T. F. 1995. A class of symmetric bivariate uniform distributions. Statist. Papers36(1) 31--40) and Bojarski (Bojarski, J. 2001. A new class of band copulas---Distributions with uniform marginals. Technical report, Institute of Mathematics, Technical University of Zielona Gora, Zielona Gora, Poland). Similar to Archimedean copulas, GDB copula construction requires a generator function. Bojarski's GDB copula generator functions are symmetric probability density functions. In this paper, symmetric members of a two-sided framework of distributions introduced by van Dorp and Kotz (van Dorp, J. R., S. Kotz. 2003. Generalizations of two-sided power distributions and their convolution. Comm. Statist.: Theory and Methods32(9) 1703--1723) shall be considered. This flexible setup allows for derivations of GDB copula properties resulting in novel convenient expressions. A straightforward elicitation procedure for the GDB copula dependence parameter is proposed. Closed-form expressions for specific examples in the subfamily of GDB copulas are presented, which enhance their transparency and facilitate their application. These examples closely approximate the entropy of maximum-entropy copulas. Application of GDB copulas is illustrated via a value-of-information decision analysis example.

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