Statistics: Association and Causation

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This, however, is easier in theory than in practice, and statisticians have developed various techniques to help differentiate between causation, a variable directly related to phenomena, and association, a variable who's changes occur concurrently with the phenomena, and could be causal or non-causal...
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Does the rooster cause the sun to rise? Not likely. But, if we were to track and plot the sunrises and rooster crows every morning for a year, it would be evident that they occur concurrently. This is an association. So, then, does the sunrise cause the rooster to crow? Not necessarily. A spurious association is an association between two variables that can be better explained by a third lurking, or hidden variable...
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