Research Article

Dose Correlation of Panax ginseng and Atractylodes macrocephala Koidz. Drug Pairs in the Chinese Medicine Prescription Based on the Copula Function

Table 6

The copula function parameter estimation.

Copula functionSquared Euclidean distanceParameter estimationKendall correlation coefficientSpearman correlation coefficient

Clayton copula function0.0247α = 6.53910.79580.9207
Frank copula function0.0214α = 16.85500.69890.9426
Gumbel copula function0.0276α = 4.39150.82110.9264
Gaussian copula function0.0472ρ = 0.89020.77230.8810
t-copula function0.0108ρ = 0.9608,  = 4.00890.78580.9276