Usually means: Correlation not implying causation necessarily.
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noun:  In statistics, a spurious relationship or spurious correlationBurns, William C., "Spurious Correlations", 1997. is a mathematical relationship in which two or more events or variables are associated but not causally related, due to either coincidence or the presence of a certain third, unseen factor (referred to as a "common response variable", "confounding factor", or "lurking variable").


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