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Independent vs Pseudoreplicate - What's the difference?

independent | pseudoreplicate |

As nouns the difference between independent and pseudoreplicate

is that independent is a candidate or voter not affiliated with any political party, a free thinker, free of a party platform while pseudoreplicate is (statistics) any of a group of interdependent data that are mistakenly treated as independent.

As an adjective independent

is not dependent; not contingent or depending on something else; free.

independent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • not dependent; not contingent or depending on something else; free
  • (politics) not affiliated with any political party
  • Providing a comfortable livelihood.
    • an independent property
  • Not subject to bias or influence; self-directing.
    • a man of an independent mind
  • Separate from; exclusive; irrespective.
  • * R. P. Ward
    • That obligation in general, under which we conceive ourselves bound to obey a law, independent of those resources which the law provides for its own enforcement.

    Synonyms

    * autonomous * free * selfstanding

    Antonyms

    * contingent * dependent

    Derived terms

    * independency * independent contractor * independent film * * independently * independent means

    Related terms

    * depend * dependence * dependently * independence * independently * pendant * pending

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A candidate or voter not affiliated with any political party, a free thinker, free of a party platform.
  • A neutral or uncommitted person.
    • ----

    pseudoreplicate

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (statistics) Any of a group of interdependent data that are mistakenly treated as independent.

    • Related terms

    *pseudoreplication