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statistical independence

Two random quantities are independent when knowing one tells you nothing about the other; a distribution describes how likely each possible value is.

Two random variables are statistically independent when the outcome of one carries no information about the other -- their joint probability factors as the product of their separate probabilities. A distribution is the full description of how likely a random variable is to take each of its possible values.

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