A goodness-of-fit test based on Kendall’s process: Durante’s bivariate copula models

Abstract

The proposed goodness-of-fit testing procedures for copula models are fairly recent. The new test statistics or omnibus tests are functional of an empirical process motivated by the theoretical and empirical versions of Kendall’s or Spearman’s dependence function. In this paper, we propose a fitting procedure for a symmetric and flexible copula model with a non-zero singular component using the Kendall process. The conditions under which this empirical process weakly converges are satisfied. Using a parametric bootstrap method that allows to compute approximate p-values, it is empirically shown that tests based on the Cram´ervon Mises distance keeps the prescribed value for the nominal level under the null hypothesis. Simulation studies that demonstrate the power of the fit test are presented.