Mathematics A-Level
independence violations
What independence violations means in Mathematics A-Level, as defined for WJEC.
Definition of independence violations
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In reality, weather conditions create correlated risks, and disease transmission causes spatial clustering, so individual occurrences influence one another.
Topics that use independence violations
- Probability (A2 Unit 4: Applied Mathematics B) (WJEC A-Level)
Related terms
- Conditional probability
- conditional probability formula
- evaluating assumptions
- general addition rule
- model refinement
- probabilistic modelling
- Tree diagrams
- Two-way tables
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