Unsupervised Learning Applied to the Grouped t-Copula or the Modeling of Real-Life Dependence

28 Pages Posted: 17 Jan 2018

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Loïc Brin

Société Générale

Pierre Clauss

Université d'Évry - Centre D'Etudes des Politiques Economiques et de L'Emploi (EPEE)

François Crénin

Société Générale

Sophie Lavaud

Sciences Po - Sciences Po, Students

Jiali Xu

Amundi Asset Management

Date Written: January 11, 2018

Abstract

Grouped t-copulas were introduced by Embrechts et al. (1999) and Fang et al. (2002) to address the inability of Gaussian copulas to model non-linear dependencies and of t-copulas to model heterogeneous tail-dependencies. These heterogeneous tail-dependencies can be observed in many fields (finance, hydrology, meteorology). Nonetheless, the use of grouped t-copulas comes at the price of a higher number of parameters to fit, and the necessity to form a priori unknown groups which variables' tail-dependencies are the same. This paper takes up these two challenges by providing an unsupervised method based on the bootstrapped estimates of individual t-copulas to form the groups, and a procedure to fit the grouped t-copula once the groups are known by combining the four-step procedures introduced in Brin et Xu (2016) with a bootstrap on the MLE of the grouped t-copula. This methodology gives good results on simulated data sets as soon as the number of observations is large enough (above 1000).

Keywords: grouped t-copula, statistical clustering, correlation and dependence measures, tail dependence, copula calibration

Suggested Citation

Brin, Loïc and Clauss, Pierre and Crénin, François and Lavaud, Sophie and Xu, Jiali, Unsupervised Learning Applied to the Grouped t-Copula or the Modeling of Real-Life Dependence (January 11, 2018). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3100048 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3100048

Loïc Brin (Contact Author)

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Pierre Clauss

Université d'Évry - Centre D'Etudes des Politiques Economiques et de L'Emploi (EPEE) ( email )

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François Crénin

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Sophie Lavaud

Sciences Po - Sciences Po, Students

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Jiali Xu

Amundi Asset Management ( email )

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Paris, 75015
France

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