A causal relationship means that one thing directly causes another thing to happen. It's like a cause and effect connection where one event leads to another event. Full definition
Methods: The team developed novel mathematical approaches for extending existing methods of determining causal relationships between genes that are driving biological processes. (pnnl.gov)
Not in its executive summary, in its press release, or anywhere in the report does the committee call for the conduct of experiments that could establish causal relationships between policies and outcomes. (educationnext.org)
Several recent papers have applied correlation analysis to climate - related time series in the hope of finding evidence for causal relationships. (pik-potsdam.de)