To cite the 'pacotest' package in publications use:

Kurz M (2025). pacotest: Testing for Partial Copulas and the Simplifying Assumption in Vine Copulas. R package version 0.4.3.

Kurz M, Spanhel F (2022). “Testing the simplifying assumption in high-dimensional vine copulas.” Electronic Journal of Statistics, 16(2), 5226–5276.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users can be obtained by calling: toBibtex(citation("pacotest"))

Corresponding BibTeX entries:

  @Manual{,
    title = {pacotest: Testing for Partial Copulas and the Simplifying
      Assumption in Vine Copulas},
    author = {Malte S. Kurz},
    year = {2025},
    note = {R package version 0.4.3},
  }

  @Article{,
    author = {Malte S. Kurz and Fabian Spanhel},
    title = {Testing the simplifying assumption in high-dimensional
      vine copulas},
    volume = {16},
    journal = {Electronic Journal of Statistics},
    number = {2},
    publisher = {Institute of Mathematical Statistics and Bernoulli
      Society},
    pages = {5226--5276},
    year = {2022},
  }