statistical independence

noun

Statistics.

1. the condition or state of events or values of being statistically independent.

Example Sentences

The very definition of statistical independence between two events is that the outcome of one has no effect on the outcome of the other.

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The Economist explained how a misunderstanding of statistical independence became a flaw in the Meadow testimony: There is an obvious flaw in this reasoning, as the Royal Statistical Society, protective of its derided subject, has pointed out.

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“Such haphazard methods and erroneous assumptions of statistical independence could equally find a genetic cause for the use of chopsticks,” the critics wrote.

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