An analysis of a heuristic procedure to evaluate tail (in)dependence

Measuring tail dependence is an important issue in many applied sciences in order to quantify the risk of simultaneous extreme events. A usual measure is given by the tail dependence coefficient. The characteristics of events behave quite differently as these become more extreme, whereas we are in t...

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Main Author: Ferreira, Marta Susana (author)
Other Authors: Silva, Sérgio (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/37243
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/37243