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Spurious Correlation

In: Encyclopedia of Measurement and Statistics

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Edited by: Neil J. Salkind Published: 2007

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412952644.n427

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In social science research, the idea of spurious correlation is taken to mean roughly that when two variables correlate, it is not because one is a direct cause of the other but rather because they are brought about by ...

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