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spurious correlation
Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | spurious correlation - a correlation between two variables (e.g., between the number of electric motors in the home and grades at school) that does not result from any direct relation between them (buying electric motors will not raise grades) but from their relation to other variablesstatistics - a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameterscorrelational statistics, correlation - a statistical relation between two or more variables such that systematic changes in the value of one variable are accompanied by systematic changes in the other |
spurious correlation
spurious correlation[′spyu̇r·ē·əs ‚kä·rə′lā·shən] (statistics) The value of the coefficient of correlation when it is computed correctly but its relationship implications are nonsensical or unreasonable. spurious correlation see MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS.spurious correlation
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