In statistics, a spurious relationship or spurious correlation is a mathematical relationship in which two or more events or variables are associated but...

Look up spurious in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Spurious may refer to: Spurious relationship in statistics Spurious emission or spurious tone in...

invalidating the working hypothesis. This indicates the presence of a spurious relationship existing within experimental parameters. Unexpected results may...

An entity–relationship model (or ER model) describes interrelated things of interest in a specific domain of knowledge. A basic ER model is composed of...

In computing, a spurious wakeup occurs when a thread wakes up from waiting on a condition variable and finds that the condition is still unsatisfied. It...

This principle follows from the fact that it is always possible a spurious relationship exists for variables between which covariance is found in some degree...

common cause or questionable cause) is a logical fallacy in which a spurious relationship is confused for causation. It asserts that X causes Y when in reality...

The Redskins Rule is a spurious relationship in which the results of National Football League (NFL) games correlated strongly with the results of subsequent...

The Mierscheid law is a satirical forecast hypothesis based on a spurious relationship, published in the German magazine Vorwärts on 14 July 1983 and attributed...

to, or immediately responsible for causing, some observed result Spurious relationship – Apparent, but false, correlation between causally-independent...