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   Independence
   Independence is a township in Saline County Illinois, USA Independence is a city partly in Jackson County and partly in Clay County Missouri, USA Independence is a township in Dunklin County Missouri, USA Independence is a township in Nodaway County Missouri, USA Independence is a city in Hennepin County Minnesota, USA Independence is a township in Oakland County Michigan, USA Independence is a city in Kenton County Kentucky, USA Independence is a township in Montgomery County Kansas, USA Indepe...
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   Independence
   Is a very important concept in probability and statistics. When the occurrence or nonoccurrence of an event has no impact or statistical influence on another event then the events are said to be independent of one another. When stock market or other asset returns are substituted for events, these observations are assumed to be independent. This assumption simplifies the mathematics of many pricing and portfolio models. However, it may be inaccurate, particularly during periods of high or increas...
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   independence
   [Noun] When a country stops being ruled by another country and rules itself.
   Example: The anniversary of Jamaican independence is in August.
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   independence
   Separation of responsibilities which ensures the accomplishment of objective evaluation. After [dob].
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   independence
   [n] - freedom from control or influence of another or others 2. [n] - a city in western Missouri 3. [n] - the successful ending of the American Revolution
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   independence
   in the calculus of probabilities,independence is usually defined by reference to the principle of compound probabilities.Two events are independent if the probability of one is the same whether the other is given or not Category: Mathematics • notion expressing the database independence towards the management system Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)
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   Independence
   In`de·pend'ence noun [ Confer French indépendance .] 1. The state or quality of being independent; freedom from dependence; exemption from reliance on, or control by, others; self-subsistence or maintenance; direction of one's own affairs without interference. « Let fortune do her worst, . . . as long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence .» ...
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   independence
   1. The relationship between two or more events in which no information about any combination of some of them contains any information about any combination of the others. ... 2. The state of mutual detachment between or among autonomous units. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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   independence
   noun the successful ending of the American Revolution; `they maintained close relations with England even after independence`
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    Independence
    `Independence` is the self-government of a nation, country, or state by its residents and population, or some portion thereof, generally exercising sovereignty. The term `independence` is used in contrast to `subjugation,` which refers to a region as a `territory` —subject to the political and military control of an external government. The word is sometimes used in a weaker sense to contrast with hegemony, the indirect control of one nat...
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    Independence
    • (n.) The state or quality of being independent; freedom from dependence; exemption from reliance on, or control by, others; self-subsistence or maintenance; direction of one`s own affairs without interference. • (n.) Sufficient means for a comfortable livelihood.
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    independence
    (from the article `formal logic`) ...It is strongly complete if the addition to it (as an extra axiom) of any wff whatever that is not already a theorem would make the system ... The independence of the axioms is usually proved by using more than two truth values. These values are divided into two classes: the desired and the ... [2 ...
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    Independence
    city, seat (1870) of Montgomery county, southeastern Kansas, U.S. Independence lies on the Verdigris River, near Elk City Lake (dammed for flood ...
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    Independence
    city, seat of Jackson county, western Missouri, U.S., immediately east of Kansas City. It is the hometown of President Harry S. Truman (who was born ...
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    Independence
    Independence is a English girl name. The meaning of the name is `Freedom` The name Independence doesn`t appear In the US top 1000 most common names over de last 128 years. The name Independence seems to be unique!
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    independence
    Separation of responsibilities, which encourages the accomplishment of objective testing. [After DO-178b]…
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    Independence
    Not being subject to control by others.
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    Independence
    In a set of postulates for a mathematical discipline (see Mathematics), a particular postulate is said to be independent if it cannot be proved as a consequence of the others. A non-independent postulate is thus superfluous, and should be dropped. In a logistic system (q. v.), a primitive formula or a primitive rule of inference may be said to be ...
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