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- noun Lack of
independence ;dependence .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Johnson will go down in history as the man who filled the ridiculous and inglorious role of having tried to issue the declaration of Latin American nonindependence.
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It is absurd to attempt to create this organization with the right to intervene because what Johnson has done is to declare the nonindependence of Latin America.
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To be sure, when the monopolies 'representatives gave that slap in the face to all the republics in America by issuing the declaration of nonindependence, a few -- or rather, many -- persons reddened with shame.
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But for all the other countries of Latin America he has formulated the declaration of nonindependence, the right to intervene.
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And we are sure that this effort to subjugate the hemisphere, this declaration of nonindependence, this stupid policy, will make the people's revolution spirit grow.
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Regression through the origin with phylogenetically independent contrasts … which is equivalent to phylogenetic generalized least squares (PGLS) analysis, accounts for the nonindependence of species and indicates no overall evolutionary relationship between the traits … The apparent pattern across species was driven by positively correlated trait change only at the basal split of the phylogeny; throughout the rest of the phylogeny, the traits mostly changed in opposite directions (A; basal contrast in red) ….
Discover Blogs 2010
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Specifically, Vul and his coauthors claim that many, if not most, social neuroscientists commit a nonindependence error in their research in which the final measure (say, a correlation between behavior and brain activity in a certain region) is not independent of the selection criteria
SEEDMAGAZINE.COM 2009
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Kanwisher, who just cowrote a book chapter with Vul about the nonindependence error, says that researchers can lean too heavily on "fancy" math.
Signs of the Times 2009
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Nature, Science, Nature Neuroscience, Neuron and the Journal of Neuroscience turned up some sort of nonindependence error in 42 percent,
Signs of the Times 2009
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Most important, it has forced scientists to re-evaluate their methodologies, as even Wager's rebuttal concedes that the nonindependence error Vul discusses can in fact inflate correlations (much of the argument is over how much).
SEEDMAGAZINE.COM 2009
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