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Table 2 Basic properties of applied copulas

From: Bivariate hydrologic risk analysis for the Xiangxi River in Three Gorges Reservoir Area, China

Copula Name

Function[\(C_{\theta } (u_{1} ,\;u_{2} )\)]

\(\theta \in\)

Generating functions [\(\phi (t)\)]

\(\tau = 1 + 4\int_{0}^{1} {\frac{\phi (t)}{{\phi ^{\prime}(t)}}dt}\)

Ali-Mikhail-Haq

\(\frac{{u_{1} u_{2} }}{{[1 - \theta (1 - u_{1} )(1 - u_{2} )]}}\)

[− 1, 1)

\(\ln (\frac{[1 - \theta (1 - t)]}{t})\)

\(\frac{3\theta - 2}{\theta } - [\frac{2}{3}(1 - \theta^{ - 1} )^{2} \ln (1 - \theta )]\)

Cook-Johnson

\([u_{1}^{ - \theta } + u_{2}^{ - \theta } - 1]^{ - 1/\theta }\)

[− 1, ∞)\{0}

\(t^{ - \theta } - 1\)

\(\frac{\theta }{\theta + 2}\)

Gumbel-Hougaard

\(\exp \{ - [( - \ln u_{1} )^{\theta } + ( - \ln u_{2} )^{\theta } ]^{1/\theta } \}\)

[1, ∞)

\(( - \ln t)^{\theta }\)

\(1 - \theta^{ - 1}\)

Frank

\(- \frac{1}{\theta }\ln \{ 1 + \frac{{(e^{ - \theta u} - 1)(e^{ - \theta v} - 1)}}{{e^{ - \theta } - 1}}\}\)

[− ∞, ∞)\{0}

\(\ln [\frac{{e^{ - \theta t} - 1}}{{e^{ - \theta } - 1}}]\)

\(1 - \frac{4}{\theta }[D_{1} ( - \theta ) - 1]\) a

  1. aD1 is the first order Debye function, and for any positive integer k, \(D_{k} (x) = \frac{k}{{x^{k} }}\int_{0}^{k} {\frac{{t^{k} }}{{e^{t} - 1}}dt}\)