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Criteria and Considerations in the Evaluation of Statistical Program Packages |
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| Authors: | Ivor Francis Richard M. Heiberger Paul F. Velleman |
| Affiliation: | 1. Dept. of Economic and Social Statistics , New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell Univ. , Ithaca , NY , 14850 , USA;2. Dept. of Statistics and Operations Research , Wharton School, Univ. of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia , PA , 19174 , USA;3. Dept. of Statistics , Princeton Univ. , Princeton , NJ , 08540 , USA |
| Abstract: | Consider a random experiment with N equally likely outcomes. This article derives conditions in terms of the prime factorization of N for the existence of classes of pairwise independent and mutually independent events. Some examples are given to elucidate the conditions. |
| Keywords: | Pairwise and mutual independence Equally likely outcomes Prime factorization and independence |