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independ.test: Testing for independence between two margins of pair-copulas

Description

Two margins of a pair-copulas are tested for independence in front of the estimation of the pair-copula, following Genest, C. and Remillard, B. (2004).

Usage

independ.test(data)

Arguments

data
Bivariate data for testing of independence.

Value

The p-value of the test statistic is returned.

Details

The test procedure is from the 'copula'-package.

References

Genest, C. and Remillard, B. (2004) Tests of independence and randomness based on the empirical copula process. _Test_ *13*, 335-369.