Research Article

A Copula-Based Method for Estimating Shear Strength Parameters of Rock Mass

Table 6

The parameter of 2D Copula functions and the values of AIC.

Copula typeθ (Q-f)AIC (Q-f)θ (Q-c)AIC (Q-c)

Nelsen No. 12.396−67.990−0.653−61.777
Nelsen No. 24.396−19.2401.347−66.184
Nelsen No. 42.198−66.341
Nelsen No. 54.978−65.175−5.442−59.637
Nelsen No. 70.634−44.658
Nelsen No. 81.629−64.809
Nelsen No. 121.465−67.648
Nelsen No. 141.698−67.287
Nelsen No. 152.698−65.3601.173−60.240
Nelsen No. 182.930−60.246