疑ぎ似じ相そう関かん

noun

spurious correlation; spurious relationship

Technical term in statistics for a correlation between two variables that is not due to a direct causal relationship, but rather to a third variable or coincidence.

• 疑ぎ似じ相そう関かんは、第だい三さんの変へん数すうによって引ひき起おこされることが多おおい。

  Spurious correlations are often caused by a third variable.