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This paper constructs two classes of models for the quantum correlation experiments used to test the Bell-type inequalities, synchronization models and prism models. Both classes employ deterministic hidden variables, satisfy the causal requirements of physical locality, and yield precisely the quantum mechanical statistics. In the synchronization models, the joint probabilities, for each emission, do not factor in the manner of stochastic independence, showing that such factorizability is not required for locality. In the prism models the observables are not random variables over a common space; hence these models throw into question the entire random variables idiom of the literature. Both classes of models appear to be testable.
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Work on this paper was supported, in part, by National Science Foundation Grant SES 79-25917.
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Fine, A. Some local models for correlation experiments. Synthese 50, 279–294 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00416904
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00416904