MEANING
A relationship in which two variables are independent after conditioning on a specified set of other variables.
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Two variables are independent once specified information is held constant.Use for statistical or causal models in which knowing a conditioning set removes dependence between variables.
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The model assumed conditional independence between the test results once the underlying disease status was known.
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- conditional independence
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