コピュラ

noun

copula (grammar, logic)

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

• 日本にほん語ごの「だ」や「です」はコピュラの一いっ種しゅです。

  Japanese 'da' and 'desu' are a type of copula.

noun

copula (statistics)

In statistics, a function that links multivariate distribution functions to their one-dimensional margins. A technical term used in probability theory.

• 統とう計けい学がくでは、コピュラは複ふく数すうの変へん数すうの依い存ぞん関かん係けいをモデル化かするのに使つかわれる。

  In statistics, copulas are used to model dependencies among multiple variables.