Statistical Independence
Events and are defined to be statistically independent if:
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That is, the occurrence of does not affect the probability of, and vice versa. Although the derived forms may seem more intuitive, they are not the preferred definition as the conditional probabilities may be undefined if or are 0, and the preferred definition is symmetrical in and .
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