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Equi-dependence implying independence

arXiv:2608.13559

Abstract

It is shown that, if an event has the same conditional probability in each trial in an infinite sequence of Bernoulli trials, then is independent of each trial. More general results are actually established.

5 pages. To appear in The American Mathematical Monthly. Added a counterexample due to Qiyuan Gu

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