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On the Construction of Independence Counterexamples

Bruce R. Johnson Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C., Canada, V8W 3P4
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Benjamin J. Tilly Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 03755, USA
Pages 14-16 | Received 01 Aug 1993, Published online: 17 Feb 2012

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