Independence

From Wikipedia:

In probability theory, to say that two events are independent, intuitively means that the occurrence of one event makes it neither more nor less probable that the other occurs

Formally:

(1)
P(A and B) = P(A).P(B)

The two events do not affect one another!

See also: Conditional Independence

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