In addition, longitudinal data, through panel studies, could provide the appropriate time sequencing to aid inference of causality, further ascertaining the relationships between the correlates and their preparedness for sex.
Future studies should clarify the temporal sequence and causality of these associations.
Prospective and intervention studies are needed to understand the temporal sequence and causality of the relationship between subclinical inflammation and DSPN.
For example, consider the Second Analogy of Experience, which Kant describes as "the principle of temporal sequence according to the law of causality," and which says that "all alterations occur in accordance with the law of the connection of cause and effect" (A189 211/B232 256).
It was not possible to reconstruct the sequence of events and direction of causality, mainly because of the cross-sectional nature of the data.
The main limitation to this study is the observational design which allows identification of associations, but not of temporal sequence or causality.
The main limitation to this study is the cross-sectional design which allows identification of associations, but not of temporal sequence or causality.
Directed functional connectivity, sometimes called "effective" connectivity, denotes a temporal sequence of activation or a direction of causality between nodes (Friston 1994; Bonifazi et al. 2009; Takahashi et al. 2010).
The analysis of a finite space into points is no more objective than the analysis (say) of causality into time-sequence + ground and consequent, or of equality into sameness of relation to a given magnitude.
We also do not have sufficient consecutive information to determine the relation between the initial reporting of loneliness, possible acquisition of a pet and the subsequent loneliness status to see the whole sequence of events to explore reverse causality in full detail.
