Talk:Local independence
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Same as Contitional Independence?[edit]
This seems to be the same as conditional independence, except that the third variable (the one conditioned on) is latent. Maybe this article can be incorporated there? I will set a reference only, as I am not sufficiently educated in statistics.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.230.167.198 (talk) 12:34, April 2, 2009 (UTC)
- Agreed, it seems to be nothing more than an instance of conditional independence. But with that said, I don't think it's a problem to keep this article separate because it does try to explain in terms of latent variables, which aren't even mentioned in the conditional independence article. Maghnus (talk) 04:27, 21 July 2010 (UTC)