The CCOPULA Procedure

Functional Summary

Table 6.1 summarizes the statements and options that the CCOPULA procedure uses.

Table 6.1: Functional Summary

Description

Statement

Option

Data Set Options

  

Specifies the input data set

PROC CCOPULA

DATA=

Specifies the input data set that contains the correlations matrix for elliptical copulas

DEFINE

CORR=

Specifies the input data set that contains the correlations matrix defined in Kendall’s tau for elliptical copulas

DEFINE

KENDALL=

Specifies the input data set that contains the correlations matrix defined in Spearman’s rho for elliptical copulas

DEFINE

SPEARMAN=

Copula Fitting Options

  

Specifies the method to use

FIT

METHOD=

Specifies the input data set that contains the correlations matrix for elliptical copulas

FIT

CORR=

Specifies the parameter value for Archimedean copulas

FIT

THETA=

Specifies the degrees of freedom for t copulas

FIT

DF=

Declaring the Role of Variables

  

Specifies the names of the variables to use in copula fitting or in simulation

VAR

 

Specifies BY-group processing

BY

 

Options to Control the Optimization Process

  

Selects the iterative minimization method to use

FIT

OPTMETHOD=

Specifies the maximum number of iterations for the optimization when you are fitting a t or Archimedean copula and METHOD=MLE

FIT

MAXITER=

Sets initial values for parameters

FIT

INIT=

Copula Estimation Options

  

Specifies the marginal distribution of the individual variables

FIT

MARGINALS=

Copula Simulation Options

  

Specifies the random sample size

SIMULATE

NDRAWS=

Specifies the random number generator seed

SIMULATE

SEED=

Output Control Options

  

Specifies the output data set to contain the normalized pseudo-data used for model fitting

FIT

OUTPSEUDO=

Specifies the output item store to preserve the properties of the copula that is fit and the results of fitting the copula

FIT

STORE=

Specifies the output data set to contain the random samples from the simulation with uniform marginal distribution

SIMULATE

OUTUNIFORM=

Prints timing information

PROC CCOPULA

PRINTTIMING

Specifies the ODS tables to display

DISPLAY

 

Specifies the ODS tables to save as CAS output tables

DISPLAYOUT

 


Last updated: June 14, 2018