Independence

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Self-governance, freedom from conflict of interest and undue influence. The IT auditor should be free to make his or her own decisions, not influenced by the organization being audited, or by its managers and employees.

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FFIEC IT Examination Handbook - Audit, April 2012

Freedom from outside control or support.

Systems and software engineering —Vocabulary

Of software quality assurance (SQA), situation in which SQA is free from technical, managerial, and financial influences, intentional or unintentional

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Two events are independent if the occurrence of one event does not affect the chances of the occurrence of the other event. The mathematical formulation of the independence of events A and B is the probability of the occurrence of both A and B being equal to the product of the probabilities of A and B (i.e., P(A and B) = P(A)P(B))

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the successful ending of the American Revolution

Wordset Dictionary

freedom from control or influence of another or others

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synonym: independency
plural: Independences
possessive: Independence's
pluralpossessive: Independences'

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