spurious correlation

/S P Y UH1 R IY0 AH0 S K AO0 R AH0 L EY1 SH AH0 N/
noun
  1. 1

    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

Translate “spurious correlation” into another language

Choose a language below to open the translator with English selected as the source language.

🇪🇸Spanish🇫🇷French🇩🇪German🇸🇦Arabic🇨🇳Chinese Simplified🇯🇵Japanese🇮🇳Hindi🇧🇷Portuguese🇷🇺Russian🇰🇷Korean🇮🇹Italian🇹🇷Turkish
See all 248+ languages
Back to Dictionary