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<blockquote data-quote="Occams Barber" data-source="post: 76617612" data-attributes="member: 313365"><p>There's a saying in the statistical business:</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>"Correlation is not causation"</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em></em></p><p>If a report is using the word 'correlation' and not 'causation' there is probably a good reason. Correlation, while it might infer a causal relationship, is not proof of cause. While correlation might infer causation a correlation between two sets of data can be interpreted in a number of ways:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A co-incidence?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Did A cause B or did B cause A?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Were A and B both caused by C?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Were A and B caused by multiple factors?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Were A and B in a feedback loop where A caused B, which caused A, which caused B.....</li> </ul><p></p><p>No competent statistician would assume causation without additional data.</p><p></p><p>OB</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Occams Barber, post: 76617612, member: 313365"] There's a saying in the statistical business: [INDENT][I]"Correlation is not causation" [/I][/INDENT] If a report is using the word 'correlation' and not 'causation' there is probably a good reason. Correlation, while it might infer a causal relationship, is not proof of cause. While correlation might infer causation a correlation between two sets of data can be interpreted in a number of ways: [LIST] [*]A co-incidence? [*]Did A cause B or did B cause A? [*]Were A and B both caused by C? [*]Were A and B caused by multiple factors? [*]Were A and B in a feedback loop where A caused B, which caused A, which caused B..... [/LIST] No competent statistician would assume causation without additional data. OB [/QUOTE]
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