A copula model with flexibly specified dependence structure can be useful to capture the complexity and heterogeneity in economic and financial time series. However, there exists little methodological guidance for the specification process using copulas. This paper contributes to fill this gap...

In this paper, we investigate the variable selection problem for recurrent event data under the additive rate model. According to the explicit estimator of the regression coefficients of the additive rate model, a loss function is constructed. It has a form similar to the ordinary least squares...

In this paper, we consider variable selection for general transformation models with right censored data via nonconcave penalties. We will conduct the variable selection by maximizing the penalized log-marginal likelihood function. In the proposed variable selection procedures, we not only can...