Hi, I have one set of observations containing two parameters. How to fit it into copula (estimate the parameter of the copula and the margin function)? Let's say the margin distribution are log-normal distributions, and the copula is Gumbel copula. The data is as below: 1 974.0304 1010 2 6094.2672 1150 3 3103.2720 1490 4 1746.1872 1210 5 6683.7744 3060 6 6299.6832 3330 7 4784.0112 1550 8 1472.4288 607 9 3758.5728 1970 10 4381.2144 1350 11 5391.7056 2120 12 5353.3872 2560 13 3036.0960 2200 14 2016.9216 1190 15 2024.2224 670 16 2255.1264 970 17 2813.7024 1060 18 3889.5552 1290 19 2365.2950 2370 20 4471.6320 1450 21 2263.2048 1660 22 3047.9760 1170 23 2415.6144 2040 24 2249.5968 764 25 1379.7216 903 26 2743.3728 1140 27 2143.3680 1120 28 1396.9152 538 29 2385.5904 535 30 3966.5808 1720 31 3315.1680 1310 32 5822.1072 1660 33 2646.2160 1260 34 3592.9440 1050 35 6689.4336 1440 36 802.5264 785 37 1371.2544 595 38 1474.3728 390 39 1588.7232 731 40 5647.7952 1685 41 3832.0560 1245 42 2409.2208 1671 43 1978.6464 1073 44 6344.5248 1169 45 1654.9488 1380 46 3341.4336 2137 47 3563.0064 1543 48 4345.8336 825 49 1039.0464 572 50 727.4448 993 51 2271.0240 1360 52 5255.9712 1730 53 5972.0112 2150 54 2710.5840 1240 55 2314.3968 920 56 521.7264 572 57 3534.8832 1110 58 1471.4352 1010 59 2963.0448 1540 60 3431.1168 1320 61 2715.9408 1210 62 5161.7088 1260 63 2853.8352 870 64 4264.8336 1784 65 5605.5888 1720 66 3861.4752 1170 67 4537.5120 4290 68 4561.2720 2090 69 2652.7392 815 70 3610.1376 1670 71 6972.1776 2870 72 2654.4672 699 73 2982.0960 1020 74 3959.9280 1140 75 1224.2880 1370 76 2309.3860 2260 I have finished the univariate analysis for both parameter, estimated the distribution fitted the "log-normal" distribution. And I install the "copula" package, the function "fitCopula" required a parameter for the copula, I didn't quite understand, because this is the one which I am going to estimate. Also, how to convert the distribution (log-normal) to uniform marginal distribution for copula analysis? ibrary(copula) gumbel.cop <- gumbelCopula(dim=2) myMvd <- mvdc(gumbel.cop, c("lnorm","lnorm"), list(list(meanlog 7.1445391,sdlog=0.4568783), list(meanlog = 7.957392,sdlog=0.559831))) x <- rmvdc(myMvd, 1000) fit <- fitMvdc(x, myMvd, c(7.1445391,0.4568783,7.957392,0.559831)) the meanlog and sdlog value are derived from the data set. error message "Error in if (alpha - 1 < .Machine$double.eps^(1/3)) return(rCopula(n, : missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed " How to choose the copula parameter with the given data, and the margin distributions derived from the data set? Thank you very much for your help. best regards, Yang Yang GFZ-Potsdam [[alternative HTML version deleted]]