spurious relationships
Spurious relationships refer to statistical associations or correlations between variables that are coincidental or misleading, lacking any causal or meaningful connection. These relationships arise due to factors such as chance, confounding variables, or other unknown or unrelated factors, leading to misleading interpretations or conclusions.
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