TY - BOOK AU - Mai,Jan-Frederik AU - Scherer,Matthias TI - Simulating copulas: stochastic models, sampling algorithms, and applications T2 - Series in quantitative finance SN - 9781848168749 (hbk.) U1 - 000SA.07 23 PY - 2012/// CY - London PB - Imperial College Press KW - Copulas (Mathematical statistics) KW - Stochastic models N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Introduction -- 2. Archimedean copulas -- 3. Marshall-Olkin copulas -- 4. Elliptical copulas -- 5. Pair copula constructions -- 6. Sampling univariate random variables -- 7. The Monte Carlo method. N2 - This book provides the reader with a background on simulating copulas and multivariate distribution in general. It unifies the scattered literature on the simulation of various families of copulas as well as on different construction principles ER -