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spurious correlation
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spurious correlation [′spyu̇r·ē·əs ‚kä·rə′lā·shən]
(statistics)
The value of the coefficient of correlation when it is computed correctly but its relationship implications are nonsensical or unreasonable.


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In log form (log of building area) as another independent variable This multiple use of building area has the potential of distorting the true relationship between value and building area as well as introducing a spurious relationship between value and building area in this model.
Criminological literature suggests that employment may either be a resiliency factor or a risk factor, or may have a spurious relationship with crime.
There is further evidence of this spurious relationship in Equations (5) and (6) in Table 5 when both market capitalization and the Amnivest liquidity ratio are included as explanatory variables in the regression analyses.
 
 
 
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