[R] GOF of Student's t copula

POULOMI GANGULI p8poulomi at civil.iitb.ac.in
Mon Aug 8 19:17:53 CEST 2011


Hi all,

I need to test gof of 3-dimensional t copula for my trivariate observed
data set. So I used the command

t.cop <- tCopula(c(0.785,0.283,0.613),dim=3,dispstr="un",df=6,df.fixed =
TRUE)

where c(0.785,0.283,0.613) is the correlation pattern of my data with 0.785
pearson correlation between variable 1-2, 0.283 correlation between 1-3 and
0.613 is the correlation between variable 2-3. In given command degree of
freedom (dof) is fixed, which i'm varying from df = 2,...,6 & checking
corresponding p-value of the estimate using gofCopula such as,

gofCopula(t.cop,x,500) for 500 iterations; where x is my observed data
vector. I'm n't converting my data to random pair, as I assumed that
gofCopula will convert the data vector to pseudo-random vector.

But in every run the value of cramer von-mises is changing but p-value is
keeping constant as 0.000998004, showing quite a poor fit to data. Kindly
let me know where i'm getting wrong? Waiting to get quick response.



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