Sentences with phrase «only correlational»

A recent review summarizing the increasing literature on links between maternal — infant relationships and asthma development, noted that only correlational, not causal links have been established.

These results are only correlational in nature, leaving open a range of possible causal explanations.

This is becoming increasingly important as those using VAM - based data are using them to make causal claims, when only correlational (or in simpler terms relational) claims can and should be made.

The Bradford - Hill criteria were devised in 1965 by British epidemiologist and statistician Sir Austin Bradford Hill to assess causality when only correlational data are available.

Not exact matches

In addition, the new study is the first to provide information on self - reported aggression of drivers in the Republic of Ireland and is also the first to support the proposed relationship between impulsivity and driving anger with more than correlational analysis, which provides only limited information about the relationships between variables.

This study of 1,159 seventh graders, using both a correlational and quasi-experimental approach, compared students participating in the Concept - Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI) program who also had traditional instruction to students in only a traditional reading / language arts program.

Even the best evaluated programs may only have before - and - after data or correlational evidence.

Of the studies that exist, only a few have statistically controlled variables: Most are case or correlational studies and rely on data self - reported by school districts.

Given the correlational nature of our data, it is impossible to establish cause - effect implications; therefore we could only discuss associations among our variables.

This is correlational data and as such only shows a relationship between these two variables.

Alternatively, given the correlational nature of the relevant analyses, the reverse effect might be plausible (if less likely, intuitively): good friendship quality could lead to friends being more likely to meet in both online and face - to - face settings while lower quality friendships could lead to meeting one another only in online or offline settings.