In financial and actuarial sciences, knowledge about the dependence structure is of a great importance. Unfortunately … comonotonicity. It turned out that a comonotonic dependence structure provides a very useful tool when approximating an unknown but … (preferably strongly) positive dependence structure. As a consequence of this evolution, there is a need for a measure which …

be more easily detectable. Specifically, we extended latent class analysis to allow dependence between the latent disease … class status of relatives within nuclear families as a function of their kinship. Such a dependence model is expected to … account familial dependence improves the classification of the individuals in their true classes, compared to a traditional …