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Graphical model: Whereas a mediator is a factor in the causal chain (top), a confounder is a spurious factor incorrectly implying causation (bottom). In statistics, a spurious relationship or spurious correlation [1] [2] is a mathematical relationship in which two or more events or variables are associated but not causally related, due to either coincidence or the presence of a certain third ...
Spurious relationship – Apparent, but false, correlation between causally-independent variables Synchronicity – Jungian concept of the meaningfulness of acausal coincidences Teleology – Thinking in terms of destiny or purpose
The phenomenon of spurious correlation of ratios is one of the main motives for the field of compositional data analysis, which deals with the analysis of variables that carry only relative information, such as proportions, percentages and parts-per-million. [3] [4] Spurious correlation is distinct from misconceptions about correlation and ...
Whereas a mediator is a factor in the causal chain (above), a confounder is a spurious factor incorrectly implying causation (bottom) In causal inference, a confounder [a] is a variable that influences both the dependent variable and independent variable, causing a spurious association.
Typical criteria for inferring a causal relationship includes: i) a statistical association between the two variables ii) the direction of influence (that changes in the causal factor induce change in the dependent variable) and; iii) a requirement that the relationship between variables is non-spurious. [3]
The first to introduce and analyse the concept of spurious—or nonsense—regression was Udny Yule in 1926. [2] Before the 1980s, many economists used linear regressions on non-stationary time series data, which Nobel laureate Clive Granger and Paul Newbold showed to be a dangerous approach that could produce spurious correlation, [3] since standard detrending techniques can result in data ...
Spurious may refer to: Spurious relationship in statistics; Spurious emission or spurious tone in radio engineering; Spurious key in cryptography;
Visualization of Simpson's paradox on data resembling real-world variability indicates that risk of misjudgment of true causal relationship can be hard to spot. Simpson's paradox is a phenomenon in probability and statistics in which a trend appears in several groups of data but disappears or reverses when the groups are combined.