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has gloss	(noun) 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 spurious correlation
lexicalization	eng: spurious correlation
subclass of	(noun) a statistical relation between two or more variables such that systematic changes in the value of one variable are accompanied by systematic changes in the other correlation, correlational statistics

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has category	(noun) a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters statistics