Meaning & use
independent event
In probability, an event whose outcome does not affect or depend on the outcome of another event.
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Flipping a coin twice produces independent events because each flip has no effect on the other.
Drawing a card and rolling a die are independent events, so their probabilities are multiplied together.
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Contrast with a dependent event, where one outcome changes the probability of the other.
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