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Abstract A connection between conditional expectations and idempotent copulas is established. It is proved that there exists a one-to-one correspondence between conditional expectations and copulas that are idempotent with respect to the binary operation introduced by Darsow, Nguyen and Olsen.

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Sempi, C. (2002). Conditional Expectations and Idempotent Copulæ. In: Cuadras, C.M., Fortiana, J., Rodriguez-Lallena, J.A. (eds) Distributions With Given Marginals and Statistical Modelling. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0061-0_23

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