censorcopula (version 2.0)

intervalFitb: Using censor method to break ties

Description

Estimate the parameter of copula with interval censor method to break ties in data.

Usage

intervalFitb(copula, method, x, start, lower, upper, optim.control,  estimate.variance, hideWarnings, bound.eps)

Arguments

copula

Type of copula to fit the data

method

Method used in the 'optim' function

x

Data with ties

start

Initial value used in 'optim' function

lower,upper

Bounds on the variables for the "L-BFGS-B" method or method "Brent"

optim.control

A list of control parameters

estimate.variance

Estimate variance

hideWarnings

Hide warnings in procedure of estimation

bound.eps

Minimum finite distance

Value

fit

Estimation of parameter

Details

Except the 'copula', 'x' and 'method', other inputs of the intervalFitb function has default value.

For method,

Method "BFGS" is a quasi-Newton method (also known as a variable metric algorithm), specifically that published simultaneously in 1970 by Broyden, Fletcher, Goldfarb and Shanno. This uses function values and gradients to build up a picture of the surface to be optimized.

Method "L-BFGS-B" is that of Byrd et. al. (1995) which allows box constraints, that is each variable can be given a lower and/or upper bound. The initial value must satisfy the constraints. This uses a limited-memory modification of the BFGS quasi-Newton method. If non-trivial bounds are supplied, this method will be selected, with a warning.

Method "Brent" is for one-dimensional problems only, using 'optimize' function. It can be useful in cases where optim() is used inside other functions where only method can be specified, such as in mle from package stats4.

References

None

Examples

library(copula)

## Generate sample and introduce ties
data <- rCopula(50, claytonCopula(2))
data[, 1] <- round(data[, 1], digit=1)

## Estimate parameter of clayton copula from the sample
intervalFitb(copula=claytonCopula(2), method="BFGS", data)