The Galambos (negative logistic) extreme-value copula #
For θ > 0 the Galambos Pickands function is
A(t) = 1 - (t^{-θ} + (1-t)^{-θ})^{-1/θ} = 1 - t (1 - t) / (t^θ + (1-t)^θ)^{1/θ}
(the second form is used as the definition, galambosPickands, since it is also correct at the
endpoints). It is a Pickands function (isPickandsFunction_galambosPickands): the bounds follow
from (t^θ + (1-t)^θ)^{1/θ} ≥ max(t, 1-t), and convexity of A from the superadditivity of the
negative-order power mean (x^{-θ} + y^{-θ})^{-1/θ} (reverse Minkowski inequality, proved from
the convexity of s ↦ s^{-θ}). The resulting copula galambos θ hθ has the classical CDF
C(u,v) = u v exp(((-log u)^{-θ} + (-log v)^{-θ})^{-1/θ}) (cdf_galambos),
and upper tail dependence coefficient λ_U = 2^{-1/θ} (hasUpperTailDependence_galambos).
References: J. Galambos, Order statistics of samples from multivariate distributions (1975); H. Joe, Dependence Modeling with Copulas (2014); G. Gudendorf and J. Segers, Extreme-value copulas (2010).
The Galambos function is a Pickands dependence function for every θ > 0.
The Galambos copula, θ > 0.
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The classical Galambos CDF u v exp(((-log u)^{-θ} + (-log v)^{-θ})^{-1/θ}) on (0,1)².
Upper tail dependence of the Galambos copula: λ_U = 2^{-1/θ}.