One of the initialization functions nag_rand_init_repeat (g05kf) (for a repeatable sequence if computed sequentially) or nag_rand_init_nonrepeat (g05kg) (for a non-repeatable sequence) must be called prior to the first call to nag_rand_copula_plackett_bivar (g05rg).

References

Nelsen R B (2006) An Introduction to Copulas (2nd Edition) Springer Series in Statistics

Parameters

Compulsory Input Parameters

1: $n$ – int64int32nag_int scalar: $n$ , the number of bivariates to generate.

Constraint: $n \geq 0$ .
2: $theta$ – double scalar: $θ$ , the copula parameter.

Constraint: $theta \geq 0.0$ .
3: $sorder$ – int64int32nag_int scalar: Determines the storage order of variates; the $(i, j)$ th variate is stored in $x (i, j)$ if $sorder = 1$ , and $x (j, i)$ if $sorder = 2$ , for $i = 1, 2, \dots, n$ and $j = 1, 2$ .

Constraint: $sorder = 1$ or $2$ .
4: $state (:)$ – int64int32nag_int array: Note: the actual argument supplied must be the array state supplied to the initialization routines nag_rand_init_repeat (g05kf) or nag_rand_init_nonrepeat (g05kg).

Contains information on the selected base generator and its current state.

Optional Input Parameters

None.

Output Parameters

1: $state (:)$ – int64int32nag_int array: Contains updated information on the state of the generator.
2: $x (ldx, sdx)$ – double array: The $n$ bivariate uniforms with joint distribution described by $C_{θ}$ , with $x (i, j)$ holding the $i$ th value for the $j$ th dimension if $sorder = 1$ and the $j$ th value for the $i$ th dimension if $sorder = 2$ .
3: $ifail$ – int64int32nag_int scalar: $ifail = 0$ unless the function detects an error (see Error Indicators and Warnings).

Error Indicators and Warnings

Errors or warnings detected by the function:

$ifail = 1$: On entry, corrupt state argument.

$ifail = 2$: Constraint: $theta \geq 0.0$ .

$ifail = 3$: Constraint: $n \geq 0$ .

$ifail = 4$: On entry, invalid sorder.
Constraint: $sorder = 1$ or $2$ .

$ifail = 6$: On entry, ldx is too small: $ldx =_$ .

$ifail = 7$: On entry, sdx is too small: $sdx =_$ .

$ifail = - 99$: An unexpected error has been triggered by this routine. Please contact NAG.

$ifail = - 399$: Your licence key may have expired or may not have been installed correctly.

$ifail = - 999$: Dynamic memory allocation failed.

Accuracy

Not applicable.

Further Comments

In practice, the need for numerical stability restricts the range of

θ

such that:

if $θ < ε_{s}$ , the function returns pseudorandom uniform variates with $C_{0}$ joint distribution;
if $|θ - 1| < ε$ , the function returns pseudorandom uniform variates with $C_{1}$ joint distribution;
if $θ > ε_{s}^{- 1 / 2}$ , the function returns pseudorandom uniform variates with $C_{\infty}$ joint distribution;

where

ε_{s}

is the safe-range parameter, the value of which is returned by nag_machine_real_safe (x02am); and

ε

is the machine precision returned by nag_machine_precision (x02aj).

Example

This example generates thirteen variates for copula

C_{2.0}

Open in the MATLAB editor: g05rg_example

function g05rg_example


fprintf('g05rg example results\n\n');

% Initialize the base generator to a repeatable sequence
seed  = [int64(1762543)];
genid = int64(1);
subid = int64(1);
[state, ifail] = g05kf( ...
                        genid, subid, seed);

% Sample size and order
n      = int64(13);
sorder = int64(1);

% Parameter
theta = 2;

% Generate variates
[state, x, ifail] = g05rg( ...
                           n, theta, sorder, state);

disp('Variates from a bivariate Plackett copula');
disp(x);

g05rg example results

Variates from a bivariate Plackett copula
    0.6364    0.0695
    0.1065    0.4586
    0.7460    0.3586
    0.7983    0.3267
    0.1046    0.9888
    0.4925    0.8920
    0.3843    0.4903
    0.7871    0.4248
    0.4982    0.5783
    0.6717    0.4419
    0.0505    0.5802
    0.2580    0.6629
    0.6238    0.3291

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