On Stute's representation for a class of smooth, possibly data-adaptive empirical copula processes

Abstract: Given a random sample from a continuous multivariate distribution, Stute's representation is obtained for empirical copula processes constructed from a broad class of smooth, possibly data-adaptive nonparametric copula estimators. The latter class contains for instance empirical Bernstein copulas introduced by Sancetta and Satchell and thus the empirical beta copula proposed by Segers, Sibuya and Tsukahara. The almost sure rate in Stute's representation is expressed in terms of a parameter controlling the speed at which the spread of the smoothing region decreases as the sample size increases.