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Table 1 The Archimedean copulas

From: Stressed portfolio optimization with semiparametric method

Types

Copula function

Copula multivariate function

Clayton

\(\phi \left(t\right)=\frac{1}{\theta }\left({t}^{-\theta }-1\right)\)

\(C \left({u}_{1} {,u}_{2} ,\dots ,{ u}_{m}\right)={max({{{(u}_{1}}^{-\theta }+\dots +{{u}_{m}}^{-\theta }+m-1)}^{-\frac{1}{\theta }}, 0)}\)

Frank

\(\phi \left(t\right)=-ln\left(\frac{{exp}\left(-\theta t\right)-1}{{exp}\left(-t\right)-1}\right)\)

\(C \left({u}_{1} {,u}_{2} ,\dots ,{ u}_{m}\right)=-ln\left(1+\frac{({exp}\left(-\theta {u}_{1}\right)-1)\dots ({exp}\left(-\theta {u}_{m}\right)-1)}{{exp}\left(-\theta \right)-1}\right)\)

Gumbel

\(\phi \left(t\right)={(-lnt)}^{\theta }\)

\(C \left({u}_{1} {,u}_{2} ,\dots ,{ u}_{m}\right)={exp}\left(-{\left({\left(-ln{u}_{1}\right)}^{\theta }+\dots +{(-ln{u}_{m})}^{\theta }\right)}^{\frac{1}{\theta }}\right)\)