Kendall's tau of Table 4.1 families as explicit integrals #
For several families of Nelsen, An Introduction to Copulas, second edition, Table 4.1, the
Kendall integral τ = 1 + 4 ∫₀¹ φ(t) / φ'(t) dt (Corollary 5.1.4,
BivariateGenerator.kendallTau_eq_of_hasDerivAt) is not elementary (it involves exponential
integrals, incomplete gamma functions or digamma values). This file records the explicit
integral form for each of them:
- family 4.2.6 (Joe),
θ ≥ 1:τ = 1 + (4/θ) ∫₀¹ (1 − (1−t)^θ) log(1 − (1−t)^θ) / (1−t)^{θ−1} dt(kendallTau_joe); - family 4.2.9,
0 < θ ≤ 1:τ = 1 − (4/θ) ∫₀¹ t (1 − θ log t) log(1 − θ log t) dt(kendallTau_nelsen9); - family 4.2.13,
θ > 0:τ = 1 − (4/θ) ∫₀¹ t ((1 − log t) − (1 − log t)^{1−θ}) dt(kendallTau_nelsen13); - family 4.2.19,
θ > 0:τ = 1 − (4/θ) ∫₀¹ t² (1 − e^{θ − θ/t}) dt(kendallTau_nelsen19); - family 4.2.20,
θ > 0:τ = 1 − (4/θ) ∫₀¹ t^{θ+1} (1 − e^{1 − t^{−θ}}) dt(kendallTau_nelsen20).
The real extension of a generator at an interior point is its value there.
Nelsen, Table 4.1, family 9 (0 < θ ≤ 1):
τ = 1 − (4/θ) ∫₀¹ t (1 − θ log t) log(1 − θ log t) dt.
Nelsen, Table 4.1, family 13 (θ > 0):
τ = 1 − (4/θ) ∫₀¹ t ((1 − log t) − (1 − log t)^{1−θ}) dt (at θ = 1, independence,
the integrand is −t log t and τ = 0).
Nelsen, Table 4.1, family 6 (Joe, θ ≥ 1):
τ = 1 + (4/θ) ∫₀¹ (1 − (1−t)^θ) log(1 − (1−t)^θ) / (1−t)^{θ−1} dt.