| 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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| causal independence | The state of systems that share no causes or effects. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| stochastic independence | Independence of two or more events or variables; the state in which their joint probability or distribution is equal to the product of their marginal probabilities or distributions. (05 Mar 2000) |
| field dependence-independence | The ability to respond to segments of the perceptual experience rather than to the whole. (12 Dec 1998) |