Sentences with phrase «copula function»

And because the copula function used CDS prices to calculate correlation, it was forced to confine itself to looking at the period of time when those credit default swaps had been in existence: less than a decade, a period when house prices soared.

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But notice that to arrive at this understanding of the principle, we must assume that in it the verb «to constitute» is functioning as a copula — that it merely links the grammatical subject to a predicate nominative, thus establishing the identity of «being» and «becoming».