Causal Attribution: the Activity of Inferring Causes for Observed Behavior

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Essay

Causal attribution: the activity of inferring causes for observed behavior.For example: You see a car accident on the highway and assume the cause was one or both drivers talking on their cell phones at the time of the accident.

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Definitions:

Distribution

In statistics, the way in which values of a variable are spread or dispersed across a set of data.

Standard Deviation

A statistical measure that quantifies the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of data values from the mean.

Variability

The measure of how data points in a statistical distribution or dataset diverge from the average or mean value.

Central Tendency

A statistical measure that identifies a single value as representative of an entire distribution of data, commonly exemplified by the mean, median, or mode.