Sentence examples for mere correlation from inspiring English sources

Vast increases in data-processing capacity have coupled with accelerated data-transmission capability to make possible prospects for improving patients' compliance, providers' diagnostic and therapeutic marksmanship and researchers' ability to tease apart causality from mere correlation.

Most people appear to have at least one of these viruses replicating actively in their bodies, thus mere correlation of the presence of virus and disease states are probably less informative than a quantitative analysis of viraemia.

One problem with these methods is that it's difficult to prove whether the association is causation or mere correlation: High rates of pickle consumption and the development of esophageal cancer could be a mere coincidence, or both pickle eating and esophageal cancer could each be the result of something such as a lack of vegetables.

As noted at the start of this article, it is a distinctive concern of the philosophy of mind to determine the nature of mental phenomena, and a mere correlation between a mental phenomenon and something else does not (by itself) provide such an account.

Unless one is a dualist or other non-physicalist, more than mere correlation is required; at least some NCCs must be the essential substrates of consciousness.

Lab experiments are — in principle — easy to repeat, and you can control the variables so as to get a better idea of cause and effect, as opposed to mere correlation.

In chemistry, however, it is important not to allow mere correlations to masquerade as explanations.

While listening to West talk about cities, it's easy to forget that his confident pronouncements are mere correlations, and that his statistics can only hint at possible explanations.

However, a striking difference was found in the temporal correlations between the activity in motor and sensory zones, which essentially behaved independently, as in the deafferentated spinal cord in vivo, and the mere correlations, when expressed, were inverted from a motor to sensory lead in vivo to a sensory to motor lead in vitro (see also Bos et al.34).34

They are considered the "gold standard" for evaluating new policy instruments as they enable identifying causality rather than mere correlations (Boockmann et al. 2014; Falck et al. 2013).

The main advantage of this strategy is that, under instrument validity and classical measurement error, it allows us to obtain causal effects, not mere correlations.