fitCopula: A dedicated method to use the estimation routines from the VineCopula package
Description
Bivariate copulas are estimated based on BiCopEst and vine copulas through RVineStructureSelect or RVineCopSelect depending on the method argument.
Usage
BCfitCopula(copula, data, method = "ml")
Value
an object of class fitCopula as in the copula package.
Arguments
copula
an object of the desired copula class
data
a matrix holding the U(0,1) distributed data columns
method
for BIVARIATE copulas either "ml" or "itau" for maximum likelihood estimation or inverse tau estimation (for one parameter families) respectively. See BiCopEst for details. In case of a VINE copulas a list with names entries StructureSelect (default: FALSE), indeptest (default: FALSE), familyset (default: 'NA') and indeptest (default: FALSE). See RVineStructureSelect or RVineCopSelect for details.