A new method to construct high-dimensional copulas with Bernoulli and Coxian-2 distributionsWe propose an approach to construct a new family of generalized
Farlie-Gumbel-Morgenstern (GFGM) copulas that naturally scales to high
dimensions. A GFGM copula can model moderate positive and negative dependence,
cover different types of asymmetries, and admits exact expressions for many
quantities of interest such as measures of association or risk measures in
actuarial science or quantitative risk management. More importantly, this paper
presents a new method to construct high-dimensional copulas based on mixtures
of power functions, and may be adapted to more general contexts to construct
broader families of copulas. We construct a family of copulas through a
stochastic representation based on multivariate Bernoulli distributions and
Coxian-2 distributions. This paper will cover the construction of a GFGM
copula, study its measures of multivariate association and dependence
properties. We explain how to sample random vectors from the new family of
copulas in high dimensions. Then, we study the bivariate case in detail and
find that our construction leads to an asymmetric modified Huang-Kotz FGM
copula. Finally, we study the exchangeable case and provide some insights into
the most negative dependence structure within this new class of
high-dimensional copulas.
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