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Spurious relationship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In statistics, a spurious relationship (or, sometimes, spurious correlation or spurious regression ) is a mathematical relationship in which two occurrences have no causal connection, yet it may...
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spurious adj. Lacking authenticity or validity in essence or origin; not genuine; false. Of illegitimate birth ... Word Overheard: spurious ... ; IN BRIEF: Not genuine. Many people want to believe the spurious claim that you can get rich quickly without hard work.
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This can lead to "spurious correlations," a common and serious interpretation fallacy. For example, suppose that the critical variable is correlated with race, age, or gender. Thus any other variable that correlates with the critical variable will probably also be correlated with race, age, or gender.
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Not legitimate; bastard; as, spurious issue. ... Spurious primary, or Spurious quill (Zoöl.), the first, or outer, primary quill when rudimentary or much reduced in size, as in certain singing birds. Spurious wing (Zoöl.), the bastard wing, or alula.
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Definition of spurious in the Medical Dictionary. spurious explanation. Information about spurious in Free online English dictionary. What is spurious? Meaning of spurious medical term. What does spurious mean? ... Read more or ask a question about spurious; How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us,
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Definition of spurious in the Online Dictionary. Meaning of spurious. Pronunciation of spurious. Translations of spurious. spurious synonyms, spurious antonyms. Information about spurious in the free online English dictionary and encyclopedia. ... spurious - born out of wedlock; "the dominions of both rulers passed away to...
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