Correlation vs. Causation

Correlationnoun

A reciprocal, parallel or complementary relationship between two or more comparable objects

Causationnoun

The act of causing.

Correlationnoun

(statistics) One of the several measures of the linear statistical relationship between two random variables, indicating both the strength and direction of the relationship.

Causationnoun

The act or agency by which an effect is produced.

Correlationnoun

(algebra) An isomorphism from a projective space to the dual of a projective space, often to the dual of itself.

Causationnoun

Cause and effect; causality.

Correlationnoun

Reciprocal relation; corresponding similarity or parallelism of relation or law; capacity of being converted into, or of giving place to, one another, under certain conditions; as, the correlation of forces, or of zymotic diseases.

Causationnoun

The act of causing; also the act or agency by which an effect is produced.

‘The kind of causation by which vision is produced.’;

Correlationnoun

a reciprocal relation between two or more things

Causationnoun

the act of causing something to happen

Correlationnoun

a statistic representing how closely two variables co-vary; it can vary from -1 (perfect negative correlation) through 0 (no correlation) to +1 (perfect positive correlation);

‘what is the correlation between those two variables?’;

Correlationnoun

a statistical relation between two or more variables such that systematic changes in the value of one variable are accompanied by systematic changes in the other

Correlation

In statistics, correlation or dependence is any statistical relationship, whether causal or not, between two random variables or bivariate data. In the broadest sense correlation is any statistical association, though it commonly refers to the degree to which a pair of variables are linearly related.