Copula information and entropy #
Copula information is KL divergence from the independent uniform law. In two
dimensions it is mutual information; in higher dimensions it is total
correlation. Values lie in ℝ≥0∞, so singular dependence is not silently
converted to a finite real number. Copula entropy is its negative in EReal.
The logarithm convention is natural logarithms (information in nats).
Relative entropy of the copula law with respect to independent uniforms.
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Extended copula entropy. Infinite information gives entropy -∞.
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Exact finiteness conditions, including integrability of the log-likelihood ratio.
The finite integral formula, with the two probability-mass correction terms cancelled.
A nonnegative density-integral representation, also valid for infinite information.
Here klFun c = c * log c + 1 - c and the density is the Radon–Nikodym derivative.
Coordinatewise processing preserving uniform margins cannot increase information.
A measurable graph has zero independent bivariate uniform probability.
Every completely dependent bivariate copula has infinite mutual information.