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Vuolo, Mike – Sociological Methods & Research, 2017
Often in sociology, researchers are confronted with nonnormal variables whose joint distribution they wish to explore. Yet, assumptions of common measures of dependence can fail or estimating such dependence is computationally intensive. This article presents the copula method for modeling the joint distribution of two random variables, including…
Descriptors: Sociology, Research Methodology, Social Science Research, Models