High-dimensional factor copula models with estimation of latent variables

DOI10.1016/J.JMVA.2023.105263MaRDI QIDQ6200937zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Xinyao Fan, Harry Joe

Publication date 25 March 2024

Published in Journal of Multivariate Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.14487

zbMATH Keywords

bi-factorfactor scoresidentifiabilityoblique factorproxy variablestail dependence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic properties of parametric estimators (62F12) Estimation in multivariate analysis (62H12)

Abstract: Factor models are a parsimonious way to explain the dependence of variables using several latent variables. In Gaussian 1-factor and structural factor models (such as bi-factor, oblique factor) and their factor copula counterparts, factor scores or proxies are defined as conditional expectations of latent variables given the observed variables. With mild assumptions, the proxies are consistent for corresponding latent variables as the sample size and the number of observed variables linked to each latent variable go to infinity. When the bivariate copulas linking observed variables to latent variables are not assumed in advance, sequential procedures are used for latent variables estimation, copula family selection and parameter estimation. The use of proxy variables for factor copulas means that approximate log-likelihoods can be used to estimate copula parameters with less computational effort for numerical integration.

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