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The concept of mutual independence of two or more experiments holds, in a certain sense, a central position in the theory of probability. … Historically, the independence of experiments and random variables represents the very mathematical concept that has given the theory of probability its peculiar stamp.
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Shiryaev, A.N. (2019). Sequences and Sums of Independent Random Variables. In: Probability-2. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 95. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-72208-5_1
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