Copula primer mentions Uniform marginals, but example does not have uniform marginals
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I've been reading the copulas primer at https://www.tensorflow.org/probability/examples/Gaussian_Copula
Twice in the first couple of paragraphs it mentions that a copula is a distribution on [0, 1]^n with uniform marginals.
a copula is a multivariate distribution C(U_1, U_2, ...) such that marginalizing gives U_i ~ Uniform(0, 1).
the Gaussian Copula is a distribution over the unit hypercube
[0, 1]^nwith uniform marginals.
However, in the example just below, the copula pdf pdf = GaussianCopulaTriL(...) doesn't have uniform marginals. The contour plot here is clearly non-uniform in the y direction (the marginal is Normal-like, not Uniform).
Would anyone be able to explain why this is?
Ah, I think the scale_tril argument to the GaussianCopulaTriL is wrong.
I think
scale_tril=[[1., 0.8], [0., 0.6]],
should be
scale_tril=[[1., 0], [0.8, 0.6]],
This seems to fix the example to have uniform marginals. I'll stick up a PR.