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Activity Number: 163 - SPEED: Longitudinal/Correlated Data
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Monday, July 30, 2018 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Biometrics Section
Abstract #330345
Title: Vine Copula Models for Family Data Analysis
Author(s): Yihao Deng* and N. Rao Chaganty
Companies: Purdue University Fort Wayne and Old Dominion University
Keywords: Vine copula; Family data; Family dependence; Maximum likelihood estimate; Pair copula construction
Abstract:

The construction of multivariate models for analyzing family data can be challenging due to the various dependencies between family members. These models typically have parameters that are subject to intricate and stringent constraints, making it more difficult to arrive at a proper estimation of these parameters. Recently, vines and pair-copula constructions have been utilized in order to simplify the construction of multivariate models for both continuous and discrete data. These models break down the hierarchy of dependence into vines and employ bivariate or pair-copulas as "building bricks" to generate appropriate multivariate distributions. This presentation discusses pair-copula methods to model the convoluted dependence structure and proposes using a C-Vine to model the dependence among family members. Analysis of actual, real-world family data is presented to illustrate our models and estimation procedures.


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