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The use of surrogate variables has been proposed as a means to capture, for a given observed set of data, sources driving the dependency structure among high‐dimensional sets of features and remove the effects of those sources and their potential negative impact on simultaneous inference. In this article we illustrate the potential effects of latent variables on testing dependence and the resulting...