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The idea of statistical independence has cropped up once or twice already. It is such an important idea that it deserves a chapter for itself.
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Jessop, A. (2018). Independence. In: Let the Evidence Speak. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71392-2_11
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