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if and only ifUsed to introduce a condition which is necessary as well as sufficient: Alice will come if and only if Charles and Edward are both going to be there...- The problem is the formal definition of the logical constructs of if and only if, or sufficient and necessary conditions.
- Preferences over probability gambles are rational, that is, satisfy the substitution and continuity conditions, if and only if they have the expected utility property.
- We showed that in the absence of phase information, genotyping errors can be detected if and only if there is Mendelian inconsistency at one or more of the markers.
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