I read in statistic, "a realization of independent copies" from "Elements of copula modelling with R", and do not understand the meaning. I search and found that it means, the two random variables have the same distribution, but they are independent the source. I also found that the copies themself cannot be independent. That is, they are identical but not independent.
So, I still do not understand what does "a realization of independent copies" and why they are not independent?