Symmetric Bernoulli distributions and minimal dependence copulas

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Main Authors: Mutti, Alessandro, Semeraro, Patrizia
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author Mutti, Alessandro
Semeraro, Patrizia
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Semeraro, Patrizia
contents The key result of this paper is to characterize all the multivariate symmetric Bernoulli distributions whose sum is minimal under convex order. In doing so, we automatically characterize extremal negative dependence among Bernoulli random vectors, since multivariate distributions with minimal convex sums are known to be strongly negative dependent. Moreover, beyond its interest per se, this result provides insight into negative dependence within the class of copulas. In particular, two classes of copulas can be built from multivariate symmetric Bernoulli distributions: extremal mixture copulas and FGM copulas. We analyze the extremal negative dependence structures of copulas corresponding to symmetric Bernoulli random vectors with minimal convex sums and explicitly find a class of minimal dependence copulas. Our main results derive from the geometric and algebraic representations of multivariate symmetric Bernoulli distributions, which effectively encode key statistical properties.
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spellingShingle Symmetric Bernoulli distributions and minimal dependence copulas
Mutti, Alessandro
Semeraro, Patrizia
Statistics Theory
Mathematical Finance
The key result of this paper is to characterize all the multivariate symmetric Bernoulli distributions whose sum is minimal under convex order. In doing so, we automatically characterize extremal negative dependence among Bernoulli random vectors, since multivariate distributions with minimal convex sums are known to be strongly negative dependent. Moreover, beyond its interest per se, this result provides insight into negative dependence within the class of copulas. In particular, two classes of copulas can be built from multivariate symmetric Bernoulli distributions: extremal mixture copulas and FGM copulas. We analyze the extremal negative dependence structures of copulas corresponding to symmetric Bernoulli random vectors with minimal convex sums and explicitly find a class of minimal dependence copulas. Our main results derive from the geometric and algebraic representations of multivariate symmetric Bernoulli distributions, which effectively encode key statistical properties.
title Symmetric Bernoulli distributions and minimal dependence copulas
topic Statistics Theory
Mathematical Finance
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.17346