Copula-based piecewise regression

Abstract

Most common parametric families of copulas are totally ordered, and in many cases they are also positively or negatively regression dependent and therefore they lead to monotone regression functions, which makes them not suitable for dependence relationships that imply or suggest a non-monotone regression function. A gluing copula approach is proposed to decompose the underlying copula into totally ordered copulas that combined may lead to a non-monotone regression function.