Phrases with «spurious regression»

The phrase "spurious regression" refers to a statistical phenomenon where two unrelated variables appear to be strongly correlated. It can happen when both variables show a long-term growth trend over time, even though they have no causal relationship. Full definition

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Sentences with «spurious regression»

The dangers when using a non-stationary variable in a levels regression are potentially so bad (a nonsense, or spurious regression) that the safe course is to do the regression in differences. (realclimate.org)
A major benefit of cointegration is that one can regress temperature and CO2 in levels, whereas ordinarily that would lead to a spurious regression because the variable are not stationary in levels. (realclimate.org)
Gavin Schmidt recently discussed the spurious regression arising from regression of temperature against incidence of the name «Gavin», an example introduced by Lucia. (climateaudit.org)
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Phrases with «spurious regression»

Sentences with «spurious regression»

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