RT Generic
T1 Variational Inference for high dimensional structured factor copulas
A1 Nguyen, Hoang
A1 Ausín Olivera, María Concepción
A1 Galeano San Miguel, Pedro
A2 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Estadística, 
AB Factor copula models have been recently proposed for describing the joint distribution of a large number of variables in terms of a few common latent factors. In this paper, we employ a Bayesian procedure to make fast inferences for multi-factor and structured factor copulas. To deal with the high dimensional structure, we apply a variational inference (VI) algorithm to estimate different specifications of factor copula models. Compared to the Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) approach, the variational approximation is much faster and could handle a sizeable problem in a few seconds. Another issue of factor copula models is that the bivariate copula functions connecting the variables are unknown in high dimensions. We derive an automatic procedure to recover the hidden dependence structure. By taking advantage of the posterior modes of the latent variables, we select the bivariate copula functions based on minimizing the Bayesian information criterion (BIC). The simulation studies in different contexts show that the procedure of bivariate copula selection could be very accurate in comparison to the true generated copula model. We illustrate our proposed procedure with two high dimensional real data sets.
SN 2387-0303
YR 2018
FD 2018-10
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/27652
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/27652
LA eng
NO We thank Michael Wiper for the helpful comments. The first author acknowledge financialsupport from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, project numbers ECO2015-66593-P.
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