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by Klerkx
June 22nd, 2005, 11:26 am
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: copula correlation and kendall tau
Replies: 1
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copula correlation and kendall tau

<t>Kendalls Tau Transform is a robust estimator for the correlation coeficient. It is non-parametric and will not be influenced by outliers that much. I have seen the method where they use KTT as a point estimate for correlation and then do a ML search over the DoF in a t-copula. I think it is stati...
by Klerkx
May 26th, 2005, 10:26 am
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: CDO delta calculation
Replies: 25
Views: 172001

CDO delta calculation

<t>Related question. I think that the delta of a specific name is very much dependent on the correlation of that name with the market. The use of implied (base) correlation would not give the desired effect. But if I am using historical asset correlation vector, am I then still pricing risk-neutral?...