Mathematics A-Level
violation of independence
What violation of independence means in Mathematics A-Level, as defined for WJEC.
Definition of violation of independence
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A failure of the condition that events do not influence one another, which means the Poisson model is not appropriate.
Topics that use violation of independence
- Statistical distributions (AS Unit 2: Applied Mathematics A) (WJEC A-Level)
Related terms
- binomial distribution model
- binomial versus Poisson
- compound events
- discrete random variable
- discrete uniform distribution
- distribution selection
- model critique
- Poisson distribution model
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