spurious correlation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofspuriousandcorrelation
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spurious
adjective
uk/ˈspjʊə.ri.əs/us/ˈspjʊr.i.əs/
false and not what it appears to be, or (of reasons and judgments) based on something that has not been correctly understood and ...
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correlation
noun[C or U]
uk/ˌkɒr.əˈleɪ.ʃən/us/ˌkɔːr.əˈleɪ.ʃən/
a connection or relationship between two or more facts, ...
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However, in the following the question ofspuriouscorrelationwill be discussed in a person-oriented framework.
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The first of these hypotheses,spuriouscorrelation, just is the nonexistence of the initially hypothesized causal relation.
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One should not neglect variables that may cause aspuriouscorrelationbetween the endogenous variables.
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The more recently measured the control variables, the more likely they are to screen out sources ofspuriouscorrelation.
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This reduces the risk of findingspuriouscorrelationdue to data aggregated over large levels.
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Agriculture productivity is also likely to be associated with weather fluctuations and, hence, aspuriouscorrelationbetween biomass and agriculture productivity may arise because of this.
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When the prediction came true, it fueled new interest in that arguablyspuriouscorrelation.
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However, it would appear thatspuriouscorrelation(and its potential to mislead) is not yet widely understood.
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This will tend to generate spurious correlations in the estimated fitnesses of the two heterozygous frequencies of the wild-type chromosome with the balancer.
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Note that in a panel data set, all values of variables should be deflated to avoid spurious correlations.
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This can result in spurious correlations.
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Now in claiming that the failures of econometrics are due to the nonexistence of local closures, critical realism is, in other words, implying that all econometric findings are spurious correlations.
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They are based on spurious correlations between provisions of aid and arms sales.
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In order to reduce spurious correlations when analyzing observational data, researchers usually include several variables in their regression models in addition to the variable of primary interest.
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