An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics
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Not dependent.

From negation prefix → in- + → dependent.

Statistics: Two events if the occurrence of one of them gives no → information about whether or not the other event will occur; these events have no influence on each other.

→ independent; → event.

Statistics: Two random variables X and Y if and only if the value of X has no influence on the value of Y and vice versa.

→ dependent; → random; → variable.

Math.: A variable whose value determines the value of other variables. For example, x, in the expression y = f(x), is the independent variable. See also → dependent variable.

→ independent; → variable.

1) A set of objects x₁, x₂, ..., x_n (→ vectors, → matrices, → polynomials, etc.) if it si not → linearly dependent.
2) Of two particular solutions (y₁, y₂) of a → homogeneous linear differential equation of the second order (y^'' + a₁ y^' + a₂y = 0) on an interval [a, b], if their ratio in this interval is not a constant: y₁/y₂≠ constant.

→ linearly; → independent.