Electronics, Vol. 12, Pages 1601: Nonparametric Generation of Synthetic Data Using Copulas

Electronics, Vol. 12, Pages 1601: Nonparametric Generation of Synthetic Data Using Copulas

Electronics doi: 10.3390/electronics12071601

Authors: Juan Pablo Restrepo Juan Carlos Rivera Henry Laniado Pablo Osorio Omar A. Becerra

This article presents a novel nonparametric approach to generate synthetic data using copulas, which are functions that explain the dependency structure of the real data. The proposed method addresses several challenges faced by existing synthetic data generation techniques, such as the preservation of complex multivariate structures presented in real data. By using all the information from real data and verifying that the generated synthetic data follows the same behavior as the real data under homogeneity tests, our method is a significant improvement over existing techniques. Our method is easy to implement and interpret, making it a valuable tool for solving class imbalance problems in machine learning models, improving the generalization capabilities of deep learning models, and anonymizing information in finance and healthcare domains, among other applications.