Sentence examples for rather causal from inspiring English sources

Analyses of cancer genes co-amplified/co-deleted with miRNAs indicate that some of the identified links between these two miRNAs and oncogenic pathways could be due to associative rather causal relationships.

Thus our results highlight statistical associations rather than causal effects.

In this methodology, process hazard accidents are modeled using safety barriers rather than causal factors.

However, biochemical signatures are often a consequence of function, rather than causal.

Hence, our estimates should be interpreted as association/correlation rather than causal (see [15]).

Results indicate that the link between child physical abuse and adult dating violence is spurious rather than causal.

This reflects in the fact that our results should be taken as conditional associations rather than causal effects.

Aral et al. [32] found that social links between like-minded people, rather than causal influence, explained much of information diffusion observed on a network.

First, the study is not experimental nor does it control for prior levels of outcome variables; therefore, results are correlational rather than causal.

Such authors sometimes argue that explanations involving culture depend on interpretive relationships between elements of language or other cultural elements, rather than causal relationships.

Still, this does not count for selection driven by unobserved characteristics, and therefore, our results should be taken as conditional associations rather than causal effects.