Long-Range Dependence/Influence
The sample mobile phone review we saw in the previous section was an example of a long-range dependence/influence – where a term/value in a sequence has an influence on the assessment of a lot of the subsequent terms/values. Consider the following example, where you need to fill in the blank with a missing country name: "After a top German university granted her admission for her Masters in Dentistry, Hina was extremely excited to start this new phase of her career with international exposure and couldn't wait till the end of the month to book her flight to ____."
The correct answer, of course, is Germany, arriving at which would require you to understand the importance of the term "German", which appears at the beginning of the sentence, on the outcome at the end of the sentence. This is another example of long-range dependence. The following figure shows the long-range dependence of the answer, "Germany"...