also: コプラ
In grammar and logic, a word or morpheme that links subject and predicate, such as 'be' in English or だ/です in Japanese. Also referred to as 繋辞 (けいじ).
See also: 繋辞
In statistics, a function that links multivariate distribution functions to their one-dimensional margins. A technical term used in probability theory.
Japanese 'da' and 'desu' are a type of copula.
In statistics, copulas are used to model dependencies among multiple variables.