spurious correlation vs correlation

spurious correlation and correlation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
spurious correlation	Yes	No	No	No
correlation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, correlation is a hypernym of spurious correlation; that is, correlation is a word with a broader meaning than spurious correlation:

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
correlation: 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

Other hypernyms of spurious correlation include correlational statistics.

spurious correlation (noun)	correlation (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	a statistic representing how closely two variables co-vary; it can vary from -1 (perfect negative correlation) through 0 (no correlation) to +1 (perfect positive correlation)
	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
	a reciprocal relation between two or more things

spurious correlation vs correlation

spurious correlation and correlation both are nouns.

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