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New Bayesian framework simplifies complex statistical model selection

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Researchers have developed a new framework for Bayesian vine copula model selection, addressing the computational challenges that limit current methods to lower-dimensional problems. This novel approach combines loss-based model priors with a shotgun stochastic search strategy to promote sparsity and enable efficient structure selection. The framework simultaneously identifies the vine structure, selects appropriate copula families, and estimates model parameters, demonstrating its effectiveness through simulations and an application to EFT portfolio asset returns. AI

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  1. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Cristiano Villa ·

    Bayesian model selection of vine copulas: a loss-based perspective

    The growing popularity of vine copulas in multivariate statistical analysis is largely driven by their ability to capture complex dependence structures. However, this flexibility comes at a cost, as the number of possible vine models grows rapidly and becomes intractable even in …

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