The phrase "a structure of dependence" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a system or framework where one element relies on another, often in contexts such as sociology, psychology, or economics.
Example: "In many societies, there exists a structure of dependence between different social classes, where the lower class relies on the upper class for resources and opportunities."
Alternatives: "a framework of reliance" or "a system of dependency."
The tensor product smoother allows us to study the interaction between the two continuous covariates of interest without imposing an a priori hypothesis about the structure of dependence on the outcome (e.g. linearity or non-linearity).
It presents the most flexible way to simultaneously estimate the structure of dependence and the distribution parameters, as the dependent variable is beta distributed.
"This would end Japan's structure of dependence on public works and central planning".
The marginal distributions of the first model share one of the shape parameters, and the structure of dependence satisfies TP2 condition (see Section 3).
Marginal models consider the marginal distribution of each failure time and impose no particular structure of dependence among distinct failure times on each player.
Before validation of the model, the structure of dependence between costs and quality-adjusted life years (QoL) was analysed using copula distributions.
The most common approach is to adjust variance estimates via generalized estimating equations (Liang and Zeger 1986), thus allowing for appropriate estimation and inference, even when the exact structure of dependence is not known.
The second approach consists in inferring the structure of dependences through an information-theoretic framework [ 11, 12].
Again, there was a clear structure of the dependence on (P, Q) parameters, affecting strongly the clustering coefficient and also the characteristic path length, leading to changes of the small-world index σ; see Fig. 5.
Figure 1(A), (B), (C) show the topological structure of the dependence network constructed from a virtual society with significant level (alpha=0.01, 0.05, 0.1), respectively.
