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We propose measures of copula reflection and permutation asymmetry for data with positive quadrant dependence. We first define the measures of reflection asymmetry using a weighting function and then extend this approach to construct measures of permutation asymmetry for bivariate data. We define the corresponding statistical tests based on these measures and find that the proposed tests have higher statistical power comparing to some other tests for permutation and reflection symmetry studied in the literature. In addition, the measures can be used to summarize dependence structure of a multivariate data set in a few numbers and to select a more appropriate copula in the model.
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This research has been supported by an NSERC Discovery Grant. Thanks to Harry Joe and the three referees for valuable comments that helped to improve this paper.
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Appendix 1: Proof of Proposition 1, Section 3
For \(i = 1,\ldots ,n\), denote \(n_{ji} = 1/2-\sum _{j=1}^d U_{ji}/d\). We have:
It implies that
where
is the empirical copula. We use the result of Segers (2012) to find that
where
and \(\alpha \) is a centered Gaussian process with the covariance function
We get
and the asymptotic normality of \(\widehat{G}(\Delta _R;k)\) follows from Lemma 3.9.8 of van der Vaart and Wellner (1996). \(\square \)
Appendix 2: Proof of Proposition 2, Section 3
Denote \(\tilde{U}_j = 0.5 - U_j\). We have:
For simplicity of notation, we use subscripts \((j_1,j_2) = (1,2)\) and \((j_1,j_2,j_3) = (1,2,3)\). Let \(U_1^*, U_2^*, U_3^*\) be iid U(0, 1) random variables independent of \((U_1, U_2, U_3) \sim C_{123}\). Then based on pages 56 and 58 of Joe (2014),
with \(\overline{C}_{12}(u_1,u_2) = 1-u_1-u_2+C_{12}(u_1,u_2)\).
It implies that
By reflecting \(U_j\),
and therefore \(\mathrm {E}\tilde{U}_{j_1}\tilde{U}_{j_2}\tilde{U}_{j_3} = \frac{1}{2}\zeta ^*(j_1,j_2,j_3)\), where
As a result, from (8) we get:
\(\square \)
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Krupskii, P. Copula-based measures of reflection and permutation asymmetry and statistical tests. Stat Papers 58, 1165–1187 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00362-016-0743-1
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