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## Copyright (C) 2010--2011 Marius Hofert and Martin Maechler
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#### Estimation for nested Archimedean copulas
## ==== initial interval/value for optimization procedures =====================
##' Compute an initial interval or value for optimization/estimation routines
##' (only a heuristic; if this fails, choose your own interval or value)
##'
##' @title Compute an initial interval or value for estimation procedures
##' @param family Archimedean family
##' @param tau.range vector containing lower and upper admissible Kendall's tau
##' @param interval logical determining if an initial interval (the default) or
##' an initial value should be returned
##' @param u matrix of realizations following a copula
##' @param method method for obtaining initial values
##' @param warn logical indicating whether a warning message is printed (the
##' default) if the DMLE for Gumbel is < 1 or not
##' @param ... further arguments to cor() for method="tau.mean"
##' @return initial interval or value which can be used for optimization
##' @author Marius Hofert
initOpt <- function(family, tau.range=NULL, interval=TRUE, u, method=c("tau.Gumbel",
"tau.mean"), warn=TRUE, ...){
cop <- getAcop(family)
if(is.null(tau.range)){
eps <- 1e-8
tau.range <- switch(cop@name, # limiting (attainable) taus that can be dealt with in estimation/optimization/root-finding
"AMH" = { c(0, 1/3-eps) },
"Clayton" = { c(eps, 0.95) },
"Frank" = { c(eps, 0.94) }, # FIXME: beyond that, estimation.gof() fails for ebeta()!
"Gumbel" = { c(0, 0.95) },
"Joe" = { c(0, 0.95) },
stop("unsupported family for initOpt"))
}
if(interval) return(cop@tauInv(tau.range)) # u is not required
stopifnot(length(dim(u)) == 2)
method <- match.arg(method)
## estimate Kendall's tau
tau.hat <- switch(method,
"tau.Gumbel" = {
x <- apply(u, 1, max)
theta.hat.G <- log(ncol(u))/(log(length(x))-log(sum(-log(x)))) # direct formula from edmle for Gumbel
if(theta.hat.G < 1){
if(warn) warning("initOpt: DMLE for Gumbel = ",theta.hat.G," < 1; is set to 1")
theta.hat.G <- 1
}
copGumbel@tau(theta.hat.G)
},
"tau.mean" = {
tau.hat.mat <- cor(u, method="kendall", ...) # matrix of pairwise tau()
mean(tau.hat.mat[upper.tri(tau.hat.mat)]) # mean of estimated taus
},
stop("wrong method for initOpt"))
## truncate if required
cop@tauInv(if(tau.hat < tau.range[1]){
tau.range[1]
}else if(tau.hat > tau.range[2]){
tau.range[2]
}else{
tau.hat
})
}
## ==== Blomqvist's beta =======================================================
##' Compute the sample version of Blomqvist's beta,
##' see, e.g., Schmid and Schmidt (2007) "Nonparametric inference on multivariate
##' versions of Blomqvist's beta and related measures of tail dependence"
##'
##' @title Sample version of Blomqvist's beta
##' @param u matrix of realizations following the copula
##' @param scaling if TRUE then the factors 2^(d-1)/(2^(d-1)-1) and
##' 2^(1-d) in Blomqvist's beta are omitted
##' @return sample version of multivariate Blomqvist beta
##' @author Marius Hofert
beta.hat <- function(u, scaling = FALSE) {
less.u <- u <= 0.5
prod1 <- apply( less.u, 1, all)
prod2 <- apply(!less.u, 1, all)
b <- mean(prod1 + prod2)
if(scaling) b else {T <- 2^(ncol(u)-1); (T*b - 1)/(T - 1)}
}
##' Compute the population version of Blomqvist's beta for Archimedean copulas
##'
##' @title Population version of Blomqvist's beta for Archimedean copulas
##' @param cop acopula to be estimated
##' @param theta copula parameter
##' @param d dimension
##' @param scaling if TRUE then the factors 2^(d-1)/(2^(d-1)-1) and
##' 2^(1-d) in Blomqvist's beta are omitted
##' @return population version of multivariate Blomqvist beta
##' @author Marius Hofert & Martin Maechler
beta. <- function(cop, theta, d, scaling=FALSE) {
j <- seq_len(d)
diags <- cop@psi(j*cop@psiInv(0.5, theta), theta) # compute diagonals
b <- 1 + diags[d] + if(d < 30) sum((-1)^j * choose(d, j) * diags)
else sum((-1)^j * exp(lchoose(d, j) + log(diags)))
if(scaling) b else { T <- 2^(d-1); (T*b - 1)/(T - 1)}
}
##' Method-of-moment-like estimation of nested Archimedean copulas based on a
##' multivariate version of Blomqvist's beta
##'
##' @title Method-of-moment-like parameter estimation of nested Archimedean copulas
##' based on Blomqvist's beta
##' @param u matrix of realizations following the copula
##' @param cop outer_nacopula to be estimated
##' @param interval bivariate vector denoting the interval where optimization takes
##' place
##' @param ... additional parameters for safeUroot
##' @return Blomqvist beta estimator; return value of safeUroot (more or less
##' equal to the return value of uniroot)
##' @author Marius Hofert
ebeta <- function(u, cop, interval=initOpt(cop@copula@name), ...) {
stopifnot(is(cop, "outer_nacopula"), is.numeric(d <- ncol(u)), d >= 2,
max(cop@comp) == d)
if(length(cop@childCops))
stop("currently, only Archimedean copulas are provided")
## Note: We do not need the constants 2^(d-1)/(2^(d-1)-1) and 2^(1-d) here,
## since we equate the population and sample versions of Blomqvist's
## beta anyway.
b.hat <- beta.hat(u, scaling = TRUE)
d <- ncol(u)
safeUroot(function(theta) {beta.(cop@copula, theta, d, scaling=TRUE) - b.hat},
interval=interval, Sig=+1, check.conv=TRUE, ...)
}
## ==== Kendall's tau ==========================================================
##' Sample tau checker
##'
##' @title Check sample versions of Kendall's tau
##' @param x vector of sample versions of Kendall's tau to be checked for whether
##' they are in the range of tau of the corresponding family
##' @param family Archimedean family
##' @return checked and (if check failed) modified x
##' @author Marius Hofert
tau.checker <- function(x, family, warn=TRUE){
eps <- 1e-8
tau.range <- switch(family,
## limiting (attainable) taus that can be dealt with by
## copFamily@tauInv() *and* that can be used to construct
## a corresponding copula object; checked via:
## eps <- 1e-8
## th <- copAMH@tauInv(c(0,1/3-eps)); onacopulaL("AMH",list(th[1], 1:5)); onacopulaL("AMH",list(th[2], 1:5))
## th <- copClayton@tauInv(c(eps,1-eps)); onacopulaL("Clayton",list(th[1], 1:5)); onacopulaL("Clayton",list(th[2], 1:5))
## th <- copFrank@tauInv(c(eps,1-eps)); onacopulaL("Frank",list(th[1], 1:5)); onacopulaL("Frank",list(th[2], 1:5))
## th <- copGumbel@tauInv(c(0,1-eps)); onacopulaL("Gumbel",list(th[1], 1:5)); onacopulaL("Gumbel",list(th[2], 1:5))
## th <- copJoe@tauInv(c(0,1-eps)); onacopulaL("Joe",list(th[1], 1:5)); onacopulaL("Joe",list(th[2], 1:5))
"AMH" = { c(0, 1/3-eps) },
"Clayton" = { c(eps, 1-eps) }, # copClayton@tauInv(c(eps,1-eps))
"Frank" = { c(eps, 1-eps) }, # copFrank@tauInv(c(eps,1-eps))
"Gumbel" = { c(0, 1-eps) }, # copGumbel@tauInv(c(0,1-eps))
"Joe" = { c(0, 1-eps) }, # copJoe@tauInv(c(0,1-eps))
stop("unsupported family for initOpt"))
toosmall <- which(x < tau.range[1])
toolarge <- which(x > tau.range[2])
if(warn && length(toosmall)+length(toolarge) > 0){
r <- range(x)
if(length(x) == 1){
warning("tau.checker: found (and adjusted) an x value out of range (x = ",
x,")")
}else{
warning("tau.checker: found (and adjusted) x values out of range (min(x) = ",
r[1],", max(x) = ",r[2],")")
}
}
x. <- x
x.[toosmall] <- tau.range[1]
x.[toolarge] <- tau.range[2]
x.
}
##' Compute pairwise estimators for nested Archimedean copulas based on Kendall's tau
##'
##' @title Pairwise estimators for nested Archimedean copulas based on Kendall's tau
##' @param u matrix of realizations following the copula
##' @param cop outer_nacopula to be estimated
##' @param method tau.mean indicates that the average of the sample versions of
##' Kendall's tau are computed first and then theta is determined;
##' theta.mean stands for first computing all Kendall's tau
##' estimators and then returning the mean of these estimators
##' @param warn logical indicating whether warnings are produced (for AMH and in
##' general for pairwise sample versions of Kendall's tau < 0) [the default]
##' or not
##' @param ... additional arguments to cor()
##' @return averaged pairwise cor() estimators
##' @author Marius Hofert
etau <- function(u, cop, method = c("tau.mean", "theta.mean"), warn=TRUE, ...){
stopifnot(is(cop, "outer_nacopula"), is.numeric(d <- ncol(u)), d >= 2,
max(cop@comp) == d)
if(length(cop@childCops))
stop("currently, only Archimedean copulas are provided")
tau.hat.mat <- cor(u, method="kendall",...) # matrix of pairwise tau()
tau.hat <- tau.hat.mat[upper.tri(tau.hat.mat)] # all tau hat's
## define tau^{-1}
tau_inv <- if(cop@copula@name == "AMH")
function(tau) cop@copula@tauInv(tau, check=FALSE, warn=warn) else cop@copula@tauInv
## check and apply tauInv in the appropriate way
method <- match.arg(method)
switch(method,
"tau.mean" = {
mean.tau.hat <- mean(tau.hat) # mean of pairwise tau.hat
mean.tau.hat. <- tau.checker(mean.tau.hat, family=cop@copula@name,
warn=warn) # check the mean
tau_inv(mean.tau.hat.) # Kendall's tau corresponding to the mean of the sample versions of Kendall's taus
},
"theta.mean" = {
tau.hat. <- tau.checker(tau.hat, family=cop@copula@name, warn=warn) # check all values
mean(tau_inv(tau.hat.)) # mean of the pairwise Kendall's tau estimators
},
{stop("wrong method")})
}
## ==== Minimum distance estimation ============================================
##' Distances for minimum distance estimation
##'
##' @title Distances for minimum distance estimation
##' @param u matrix of realizations (ideally) following U[0,1]^(d-1) or U[0,1]^d
##' @param method distance methods available:
##' mde.chisq.CvM = map to a chi-square distribution (Cramer-von Mises distance)
##' mde.chisq.KS = map to a chi-square distribution (Kolmogorov-Smirnov distance)
##' mde.gamma.CvM = map to an Erlang (gamma) distribution (Cramer-von Mises distance)
##' mde.gamma.KS = map to an Erlang (gamma) distribution (Kolmogorov-Smirnov distance)
##' @return distance
##' @author Marius Hofert
emde.dist <- function(u, method = c("mde.chisq.CvM", "mde.chisq.KS", "mde.gamma.CvM",
"mde.gamma.KS")) {
if(!is.matrix(u)) u <- rbind(u)
d <- ncol(u)
n <- nrow(u)
method <- match.arg(method) # match argument method
switch(method,
"mde.chisq.CvM" = { # map to a chi-square distribution
y <- sort(rowSums(qnorm(u)^2))
Fvals <- pchisq(y, d)
weights <- (2*(1:n)-1)/(2*n)
1/(12*n) + sum((weights - Fvals)^2)
},
"mde.chisq.KS" = { # map to a chi-square distribution
y <- sort(rowSums(qnorm(u)^2))
Fvals <- pchisq(y, d)
i <- 1:n
max(Fvals[i]-(i-1)/n, i/n-Fvals[i])
},
"mde.gamma.CvM" = { # map to an Erlang distribution
y <- sort(rowSums(-log(u)))
Fvals <- pgamma(y, shape = d)
weights <- (2*(1:n)-1)/(2*n)
1/(12*n) + sum((weights - Fvals)^2)
},
"mde.gamma.KS" = { # map to an Erlang distribution
y <- rowSums(-log(u))
Fvals <- pgamma(y, shape = d)
i <- 1:n
max(Fvals[i]-(i-1)/n, i/n-Fvals[i])
},
## Note: The distances S_n^{(B)} and S_n^{(C)} turned out to be (far)
## too slow.
stop("wrong distance method"))
}
##' Minimum distance estimation for nested Archimedean copulas
##'
##' @title Minimum distance estimation for nested Archimedean copulas
##' @param u matrix of realizations following the copula
##' @param cop outer_nacopula to be estimated
##' @param method distance methods available, see emde.dist
##' @param interval bivariate vector denoting the interval where optimization takes
##' place
##' @param include.K logical indicating whether the last component, K, is also
##' used or not
##' @param repara logical indicating whether the distance function is
##' reparameterized for the optimization
##' @param ... additional parameters for optimize
##' @return minimum distance estimator; return value of optimize
##' @author Marius Hofert
emde <- function(u, cop, method = c("mde.chisq.CvM", "mde.chisq.KS", "mde.gamma.CvM",
"mde.gamma.KS"), interval = initOpt(cop@copula@name),
include.K = FALSE, repara = TRUE, ...)
{
stopifnot(is(cop, "outer_nacopula"), is.numeric(d <- ncol(u)), d >= 2,
max(cop@comp) == d)
if(length(cop@childCops))
stop("currently, only Archimedean copulas are provided")
method <- match.arg(method) # match argument method
distance <- function(theta) { # distance to be minimized
cop@copula@theta <- theta
u. <- htrafo(u, cop=cop, include.K=include.K, n.MC=0) # transform data [don't use MC here; too slow]
emde.dist(u., method)
}
if(repara){
opt <- optimize(function(alpha) distance(1/alpha), interval=1/interval[2:1], ...)
opt$minimum <- 1/opt$minimum
opt
}else{
optimize(distance, interval=interval, ...)
}
}
## ==== Diagonal maximum likelihood estimation =================================
##' Density of the diagonal of a nested Archimedean copula
##'
##' @title Diagonal density of a nested Archimedean copula
##' @param u evaluation point in [0,1]
##' @param cop outer_nacopula
##' @param log if TRUE the log-density is evaluated
##' @return density of the diagonal of cop
##' @author Marius Hofert
dDiag <- function(u, cop, log=FALSE) {
stopifnot(is(cop, "outer_nacopula"), (d <- max(cop@comp)) >= 2)
if(length(cop@childCops)) {
stop("currently, only Archimedean copulas are provided")
}
else ## (non-nested) Archimedean :
## FIXME: choose one or the other (if a family has no such slot)
## dDiagA(u, d=d, cop = cop@copula, log=log)
cop@copula@dDiag(u, theta=cop@copula@theta, d=d, log=log)
}
##' @title Generic density of the diagonal of d-dim. Archimedean copula
##' @param u evaluation point in [0, 1]
##' @param d dimension
##' @param cop acopula
##' @param log if TRUE the log-density is evaluated
##' @return density of the diagonal of cop
##' @author Martin Maechler
dDiagA <- function(u, d, cop, log=FALSE) {
stopifnot(is.finite(th <- cop@theta), d >= 2)
## catch the '0' case directly; needed, e.g., for AMH:
if(any(copAMH@name == c("AMH","Frank","Gumbel","Joe")) &&
any(i0 <- u == 0)) {
if(log) u[i0] <- -Inf
u[!i0] <- dDiagA(u[!i0], d=d, cop=cop, log=log)
return(u)
}
if(log) {
log(d) + cop@psiDabs(d*cop@psiInv(u, th), th, log=TRUE) +
cop@psiInvD1abs(u, th, log=TRUE)
} else {
d * cop@psiDabs(d*cop@psiInv(u, th), th) * cop@psiInvD1abs(u, th)
}
}
##' Maximum likelihood estimation based on the diagonal of a nested Archimedean copula
##'
##' @title Maximum likelihood estimation based on the diagonal of a nested Archimedean copula
##' @param u matrix of realizations following a copula
##' @param cop outer_nacopula to be estimated
##' @param interval bivariate vector denoting the interval where optimization takes
##' place
##' @param warn logical indicating whether a warning message is printed (the
##' default) if the DMLE for Gumbel is < 1 or not
##' @param ... additional parameters for optimize
##' @return diagonal maximum likelihood estimator; return value of optimize
##' @author Marius Hofert
edmle <- function(u, cop, interval=initOpt(cop@copula@name), warn=TRUE, ...)
{
stopifnot(is(cop, "outer_nacopula"), is.numeric(d <- ncol(u)), d >= 2,
max(cop@comp) == d) # dimension
if(length(cop@childCops))
stop("currently, only Archimedean copulas are provided")
x <- apply(u, 1, max) # data from the diagonal
## explicit estimator for Gumbel
if(cop@copula@name == "Gumbel") {
th.G <- log(d)/(log(length(x))-log(sum(-log(x))))
if(!is.finite(th.G) || th.G < 1) {
if(warn) warning("edmle: DMLE for Gumbel = ",th.G,"; not in [1, Inf); is set to 1")
th.G <- 1
}
list(minimum = th.G, objective = 0) # return value of the same structure as for optimize
} else {
## optimize
nlogL <- function(theta) # -log-likelihood of the diagonal
-sum(cop@copula@dDiag(x, theta=theta, d=d, log=TRUE))
optimize(nlogL, interval=interval, ...)
}
}
## ==== (Simulated) maximum likelihood estimation ==============================
##' (Simulated) maximum likelihood estimation for nested Archimedean copulas
##'
##' @title (Simulated) maximum likelihood estimation for nested Archimedean copulas
##' @param u matrix of realizations following the copula
##' @param cop outer_nacopula to be estimated
##' @param n.MC if > 0 SMLE is applied with sample size equal to n.MC; otherwise,
##' MLE is applied
##' @param interval bivariate vector denoting the interval where optimization takes
##' place
##' @param ... additional parameters for optimize
##' @return (simulated) maximum likelihood estimator; return value of optimize
##' @author Marius Hofert
##' note: this is a *fast* version (based on optimize()) called from enacopula
.emle <- function(u, cop, n.MC=0, interval=initOpt(cop@copula@name), ...)
{
stopifnot(is(cop, "outer_nacopula"))
if(length(cop@childCops))
stop("currently, only Archimedean copulas are provided")
## optimize
mLogL <- function(theta) { # -log-likelihood
cop@copula@theta <- theta
-sum(dnacopula(cop, u, n.MC=n.MC, log=TRUE))
}
optimize(mLogL, interval=interval, ...)
}
##' (Simulated) maximum likelihood estimation for nested Archimedean copulas
##'
##' @title (Simulated) maximum likelihood estimation for nested Archimedean copulas
##' @param u matrix of realizations following the copula
##' @param cop outer_nacopula to be estimated
##' @param n.MC if > 0 SMLE is applied with sample size equal to n.MC; otherwise,
##' MLE is applied
##' @param interval bivariate vector denoting the interval where optimization takes
##' place
##' @param ... additional parameters for optimize
##' @return an "mle2" object with the (simulated) maximum likelihood estimator.
##' @author Martin Maechler and Marius Hofert
##' note: this is the *slower* version which also allows for profiling
emle <- function(u, cop, n.MC=0, optimizer="optimize", method,
interval=initOpt(cop@copula@name),
##vvv awkward to be needed, but it is - by mle2():
start = list(theta=initOpt(cop@copula@name, interval=FALSE, u=u)),
...)
{
stopifnot(is(cop, "outer_nacopula"), is.numeric(d <- ncol(u)), d >= 2,
max(cop@comp) == d)
## nLL <- function(theta) { # -log-likelihood
## cop@copula@theta <- theta
## -sum(dnacopula(cop, u, n.MC=n.MC, log=TRUE))
## }
if(length(cop@childCops))
stop("currently, only Archimedean copulas are provided")
else ## For (*non*-nested) copulas only:
nLL <- function(theta) # -(log-likelihood)
-sum(cop@copula@dacopula(u, theta, n.MC=n.MC, log=TRUE))
## optimization
if(!(is.null(optimizer) || is.na(optimizer))) {
stopifnot(require("bbmle"))
if(optimizer == "optimize")
mle2(minuslogl = nLL, optimizer = "optimize",
lower = interval[1], upper = interval[2],
##vvv awkward to be needed, but it is - by mle2():
start=start, ...)
else if(optimizer == "optim") {
message(" optimizer = \"optim\" -- using mle2(); consider optimizer=NULL instead")
mle2(minuslogl = nLL, optimizer = "optim", method = method,
start=start, ...)
}
else ## "general"
mle2(minuslogl = nLL, optimizer = optimizer,
##vvv awkward to be needed, but it is - by mle2():
start=start, ...)
}
else
## use optim() .. [which uses suboptimal method for 1D, but provides Hessian]
mle(minuslogl = nLL, method = method, start=start, ...)
}
## ==== Estimation wrapper =====================================================
##' Computes the pseudo-observations for the given data matrix
##'
##' @title Pseudo-observations
##' @param x matrix of random variates to be converted to pseudo-observations
##' @return pseudo-observations (matrix of the same dimensions as x)
##' @author Marius Hofert
pobs <- function(x, na.last="keep", ties.method=c("average", "first", "random", "max", "min"))
apply(x,2,rank, na.last=na.last, ties.method=ties.method)/(nrow(x)+1)
##' Computes different parameter estimates for a nested Archimedean copula
##'
##' @title Estimation procedures for nested Archimedean copulas
##' @param u data matrix (of pseudo-observations or from the copula "directly")
##' @param cop outer_nacopula to be estimated
##' @param method estimation method; can be
##' "mle" MLE
##' "smle" SMLE
##' "dmle" MLE based on the diagonal
##' "mde.chisq.CvM" minimum distance estimation based on the chisq distribution and CvM distance
##' "mde.chisq.KS" minimum distance estimation based on the chisq distribution and KS distance
##' "mde.gamma.CvM" minimum distance estimation based on the Erlang distribution and CvM distance
##' "mde.gamma.KS" minimum distance estimation based on the Erlang distribution and KS distance
##' "tau.tau.mean" averaged pairwise Kendall's tau estimator
##' "tau.theta.mean" average of Kendall's tau estimators
##' "beta" multivariate Blomqvist's beta estimator
##' @param n.MC if > 0 it denotes the sample size for SMLE
##' @param interval initial optimization interval for "mle", "smle", and "dmle"
##' @param xargs additional arguments for the estimation procedures
##' @param ... additional parameters for optimize
##' @return estimated value/vector according to the chosen method
##' @author Marius Hofert
enacopula <- function(u, cop, method=c("mle", "smle", "dmle", "mde.chisq.CvM",
"mde.chisq.KS", "mde.gamma.CvM", "mde.gamma.KS",
"tau.tau.mean", "tau.theta.mean", "beta"),
n.MC = if(method=="smle") 10000 else 0,
interval=initOpt(cop@copula@name),
xargs=list(), ...)
{
## setup
if(!is.matrix(u)) u <- rbind(u)
stopifnot(0 <= u, u <= 1, is(cop, "outer_nacopula"), (d <- ncol(u)) >= 2,
max(cop@comp) == d, n.MC >= 0, is.list(xargs))
if(length(cop@childCops))
stop("currently, only Archimedean copulas are provided")
if(n.MC > 0 && method != "smle")
stop("n.MC > 0 is not applicable to method '%s'", method)
method <- match.arg(method)
## main part
res <- switch(method,
"mle" = do.call(.emle, c(list(u, cop,
interval = interval, ...), xargs)),
"smle" = do.call(.emle, c(list(u, cop, n.MC = n.MC,
interval = interval, ...), xargs)),
"dmle" = do.call(edmle, c(list(u, cop,
interval = interval, ...), xargs)),
"mde.chisq.CvM" = do.call(emde, c(list(u, cop, "mde.chisq.CvM",
interval = interval, ...), xargs)),
"mde.chisq.KS" = do.call(emde, c(list(u, cop, "mde.chisq.KS",
interval = interval, ...), xargs)),
"mde.gamma.CvM" = do.call(emde, c(list(u, cop, "mde.gamma.CvM",
interval = interval, ...), xargs)),
"mde.gamma.KS" = do.call(emde, c(list(u, cop, "mde.gamma.KS",
interval = interval, ...), xargs)),
"tau.tau.mean" = do.call(etau, c(list(u, cop, "tau.mean", ...),
xargs)),
"tau.theta.mean" = do.call(etau, c(list(u, cop, "theta.mean", ...),
xargs)),
"beta" = do.call(ebeta, c(list(u, cop,
interval = interval, ...), xargs)),
stop("wrong estimation method for enacopula"))
## FIXME: deal with result, check details, give warnings
## return the estimate
switch(method,
"mle" = res$minimum,
"smle" = res$minimum,
"dmle" = res$minimum,
"mde.chisq.CvM" = res$minimum,
"mde.chisq.KS" = res$minimum,
"mde.gamma.CvM" = res$minimum,
"mde.gamma.KS" = res$minimum,
"tau.tau.mean" = res,
"tau.theta.mean" = res,
"beta" = res$root,
stop("wrong estimation method"))
}