On rank correlation measures for non-continuous random variables |
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Authors: | Johanna Ne&scaron lehová |
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Affiliation: | RiskLab, Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland |
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Abstract: | For continuous random variables, many dependence concepts and measures of association can be expressed in terms of the corresponding copula only and are thus independent of the marginal distributions. This interrelationship generally fails as soon as there are discontinuities in the marginal distribution functions. In this paper, we consider an alternative transformation of an arbitrary random variable to a uniformly distributed one. Using this technique, the class of all possible copulas in the general case is investigated. In particular, we show that one of its members—the standard extension copula introduced by Schweizer and Sklar—captures the dependence structures in an analogous way the unique copula does in the continuous case. Furthermore, we consider measures of concordance between arbitrary random variables and obtain generalizations of Kendall's tau and Spearman's rho that correspond to the sample version of these quantities for empirical distributions. |
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Keywords: | 62H20 62G20 |
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