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This chapter addresses the estimation of copulas from a parametric, semi-parametric, and nonparametric perspective.
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Hofert, M., Kojadinovic, I., Mächler, M., Yan, J. (2018). Estimation. In: Elements of Copula Modeling with R. Use R!. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89635-9_4
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