independent samples

groups of individuals or sets of data that are unrelated to one other. For example, experimental groups consisting of different and unrelated participants are independent samples, as are the data sets obtained from these groups. Also called independent groups. Compare dependent samples.

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Psychology term of the day

July 27th 2024

distributional redundancy

in psychological aesthetics, the development of uncertainty in an artistic pattern by making some elements occur more frequently than others. Distributional redundancy is one of two kinds of internal restraint in pattern variation, the other being correlational redundancy, in which certain combinations of elements are made to occur more frequently than others.