CMAseparation: CMA separation. Decomposes arbitrary joint distributions...

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) References

Description

The CMA separation step attains from the cdf "F" for the marginal "X", the scenario-probabilities representation of the copula (cdf of U: "F") and the inter/extrapolation representation of the marginal CDF's. It seperates this distribution into the pure "individual" information contained in the marginals and the pure "joint" information contained in the copula.

Usage

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Arguments

X

A matrix where each row corresponds to a scenario/sample from a joint distribution. Each column represents the value from a marginal distribution

p

A 1-column matrix of probabilities of the Jth-scenario joint distribution in X

Details

Separation step of Copula-Marginal Algorithm (CMA)

Value

xdd a JxN matrix where each column consists of each marginal's generic x values in ascending order

udd a JxN matrix containing the cumulative probability (cdf) for each marginal by column - it is rescaled by 'l' to be <1 at the far right of the distribution can interpret 'udd' as the probability weighted grade scenarios (see formula 11 in Meucci)

U a copula (J x N matrix) - the joint distribution of grades defined by feeding the original variables X into their respective marginal CDF

Author(s)

Ram Ahluwalia rahluwalia@gmail.com

References

Meucci A., "New Breed of Copulas for Risk and Portfolio Management", Risk, September 2011 Most recent version of article and code available at http://www.symmys.com/node/335


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