spurious correlation   (TTS Sound)

The spurious_correlation has 1 Senses.

• spurious correlation
• 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
• （例えば家庭内にある電気モーターの数と学校の成績のように）直接的な関係は生じないが（電気モーターを買っても学校の成績は上がらない）、その関連に起因して、他の変数に生じる相関