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spurious correlation
Overview of noun spurious-correlation
The noun spurious correlation has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. 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)
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun spurious-correlation
1 sense of spurious correlation
Sense 1
spurious correlation
=> correlation, correlational statistics
=> statistics
=> applied mathematics, applied math
=> mathematics, math, maths
=> science, scientific discipline
=> discipline, subject, subject area, subject field, field, field of study, study, bailiwick, branch of knowledge
=> knowledge domain, knowledge base
=> content, cognitive content, mental object
=> cognition, knowledge, noesis
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun spurious-correlation
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun spurious-correlation
1 sense of spurious correlation
Sense 1
spurious correlation
=> correlation, correlational statistics
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Derived Forms of noun spurious-correlation
Domain of noun spurious-correlation
1 sense of spurious correlation
Sense 1
spurious correlation
TOPIC>(noun) statistics#1
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Familiarity of noun spurious-correlation
spurious correlation used as a noun is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun spurious-correlation
1 sense of spurious correlation
Sense 1
spurious correlation
> correlation, correlational statistics
=> curvilinear correlation, nonlinear correlation, skew correlation
=> partial correlation
=> positive correlation, direct correlation
=> negative correlation, indirect correlation
=> spurious correlation
Meronyms of noun spurious-correlation
1 sense of spurious correlation
Sense 1
spurious correlation
=> correlation, correlational statistics
=> statistics
HAS PART: statistical method, statistical procedure
=> applied mathematics, applied math
=> mathematics, math, maths
=> science, scientific discipline
HAS PART: scientific theory
Holonyms of noun spurious-correlation
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