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jegerarthur t1_j3f1483 wrote

> It is a field of study in statistics and machine learning that seeks to understand how changes in one variable may lead to changes in another variable, and how variables may influence one another.

Isn't it just correlation then ?

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jennabangsbangs t1_j3g02pl wrote

Influence between variables is usually a measure of probability within sequences of information events, or system states. Correlation would be a measure of relatedness between individuated states of the system. Causation is inherently time/delta based, whereas correlation is asynchronous

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