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Spurious Correlation

Definition: Spurious Correlation

Spurious Correlation

Noun

1. A correlation between two variables (e.g., between the number of electric motors in the home and grades at school) that does not result from any direct relation between them (buying electric motors will not raise grades) but from their relation to other variables.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Anagrams: Spurious Correlation

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-i-l-n-o-o-o-p-r-r-r-s-s-t-u-u"

-4 letters: ultraprecisions.

-5 letters: ultraprecision.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Spurious Correlation


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 70 75 72 69 6F 75 73      43 6F 72 72 65 6C 61 74 69 6F 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01110000 01110101 01110010 01101001 01101111 01110101 01110011 00100000 01000011 01101111 01110010 01110010 01100101 01101100 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#112 &#117 &#114 &#105 &#111 &#117 &#115 &#32 &#67 &#111 &#114 &#114 &#101 &#108 &#97 &#116 &#105 &#111 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0070 0075 0072 0069 006F 0075 0073      0043 006F 0072 0072 0065 006C 0061 0074 0069 006F 006E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

538287847581878523781848471786786758180

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