In this methodology, process hazard accidents are modeled using safety barriers rather than causal factors.
Results indicate that the link between child physical abuse and adult dating violence is spurious rather than causal.
Essentially, any problems that: (1) require prediction rather than causal inference; and (2) are sufficiently self-contained, or relatively insulated from outside influences.
Even though he'd never actually managed to finish reading a single Oulipian work, he had always felt immense sympathy for these rigorous shock-headed arithmetical Frenchmen, who seemed, like him, he told me, inept at plot, and who had discovered ways to advance by logical variation rather than causal machination.
Tehran's involvement has been "gradually opportunistic rather than causal," he said Sir William Patey, a former British ambassador to Riyadh, says some senior Saudis fear a return to the days of the shah before the 1979 Islamic revolution when Iran was America's preferred regional ally.
There are many potential explanations for this cross-district variation in achievement gaps, including racial differences in socio-economic status, differences in racial/ethnic segregation, differences in school and neighborhood quality, and the like, and the evidence to date about the leading causes of this variation is descriptive, rather than causal.
Our findings are exploratory rather than causal conclusions.
Thus our results highlight statistical associations rather than causal effects.
However, biochemical signatures are often a consequence of function, rather than causal.
