A Positive Dependence Notion based on Componentwise Unimodality of Copulas

A new property defined on the class of symmetric copulas is introduced and studied along this note. It is shown here that such a property can define a family of bivariate distribution functions satisfying all the characteristics listed in Kimeldorf and Sampson (1989) to be considered as a positive dependence notion. Applications, relationships with other positive dependence notions, further properties and the corresponding negative dependence notion are discussed as wel