The phrase "assert causality" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where one is claiming or establishing a cause-and-effect relationship between two or more events or phenomena.
Example: "The researchers aimed to assert causality between the increase in pollution levels and the rise in respiratory diseases in the area."
Alternatives: "claim a causal relationship" or "establish causation".
Furthermore, based on the cross-sectional nature of the data, we are unable to assert causality.
First, the lack of a control group limits the ability to assert causality between the implementation of the dashboard and the changes observed in guideline adherence.
Second, cross-sectional self-report study designs cannot assert causality and can be subject to social desirability biases which may impact levels of fear, but should have little effect on the relationships we examined.
(Paul said that he was not asserting causality, just a "temporal association").
There is no empiricism in Big Data.Much harm is being done by people asserting causality as a consequence of data analysis.
Moreover, they asserted that "causality in this context can almost never be resolved by large-scale association or case control studies".
Which is why, for example, climatologists, who have actually studied the data and know how to interpret it, tend to carefully hedge their claims, declining to assert any direct causality or make predictions, whereas professional obfuscators will confidently assure you that global warming is a lot of alarmist hooey.
The Law of Causality asserts the existence of a unique first-order conformal structure on spacetime (27), that is, a field of infinitesimal light cones.
In Reichenbach's reading of Kant, the "principle of causality" asserts that every event is preceded by a cause that determines it according to some universal law (see the discussion of Kant's principle in Section 2 of the entry on Kant and Hume on Causality).
Since the "true causality" issue is deeply philosophical, econometricians assert that the Granger test finds only "predictive causality" [38].
The idea of causality is alleged to assert a "necessary connexion" among matters of fact.
