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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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    noncomputable def ProbabilityTheory.Copula.copulaEntropy {d : ℕ} (C : Copula d) :

    Extended copula entropy. Infinite information gives entropy -∞.

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      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.