A distributed sensor network measures temperature and humidity; which outcome suggests temperature and humidity readings from spatially separated sensors are statistically independent?

💡 Explanation

Statistical independence means knowing one variable's value gives no information about the other; therefore, the joint probability of independent events equals the product of their marginal probabilities, because there's no dependency structure, rather than correlation indicating dependence or shared resources implying related failures.

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