covariation

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Meaning

(statistics) correlated variation

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In an experiment (Schienle et al. 1996) 22 believers and 20 skeptics were asked to judge the covariation between transmitted symbols and the corresponding feedback given by a receiver. Source: Internet

The extracted variables are known as latent variables or factors; each one may be supposed to account for covariation in a group of observed variables. Source: Internet

Tufte suggests that the shortest true statement that can be made about causality and correlation is one of the following:sfn * "Empirically observed covariation is a necessary but not sufficient condition for causality." Source: Internet

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