
Table 10.1 summarizes the statements and options used with the COPULA procedure.
Table 10.1: COPULA Functional Summary
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Description |
Statement |
Option |
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Data Set Options |
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Specifies the input data set |
COPULA |
DATA= |
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Specifies the input data set that contains the correlation matrix for elliptical copulas |
DEFINE |
CORR= |
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Specifies the input data set that contains the correlation matrix defined in Kendall’s tau for elliptical copulas |
DEFINE |
KENDALL= |
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Specifies the input data set that contains the correlation matrix defined in Spearman’s rho for elliptical copulas |
DEFINE |
SPEARMAN= |
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Specifies the degrees of freedom for t copulas |
DEFINE |
DF= |
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Specifies the parameter value for Archimedean copulas |
DEFINE |
THETA= |
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Specifies the hierarchy for hierarchical Archimedean copulas |
DEFINE |
HIERARCHY= |
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Declaring the Role of Variables |
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Specifies the names of the variables to use in copula fitting or in simulation |
VAR |
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Specifies BY-group processing |
BY |
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Plotting Options |
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Prints a summary iteration listing |
FIT |
ITPRINT |
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Suppresses the normal printed output |
FIT |
NOPRINT |
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Requests all printing options |
FIT |
PRINTALL |
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Suppresses the correlation matrix printed output |
FIT |
NOCORR |
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Printing Control Options |
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Displays plots for fitted copulas |
FIT |
PLOTS= |
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Displays plots for simulated copulas |
SIMULATE |
PLOTS= |
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Optimization Process Control Options |
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Sets boundary restrictions on parameters |
BOUNDS |
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Selects the iterative minimization method to use |
FIT |
METHOD= |
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Sets initial values for parameters |
FIT |
INIT= |
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Copula Estimation Options |
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Specifies the marginal distribution of the individual variables |
FIT |
MARGINALS= |
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Copula Simulation Options |
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Specifies the marginal distribution of the simulated variables |
SIMULATE |
MARGINALS= |
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Specifies the random sample size |
SIMULATE |
NDRAWS= |
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Specifies the random number generator seed |
SIMULATE |
SEED= |
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Output Control Options |
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Specifies the output data set to contain the fitted copula values |
FIT |
OUTCOPULA= |
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Specifies the output data set to contain pseudo-samples with the uniform marginal distribution |
FIT |
OUTPSEUDO= |
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Specifies the output data set to contain the random samples from the simulation |
SIMULATE |
OUT= |
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Specifies the output data set to contain the random samples from the simulation with uniform marginal distribution |
SIMULATE |
OUTUNIFORM= |