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Green, N. (2012, January 6). Correlation is not causation. Retrieved 14 Aug 2014, from http://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2012/jan/06/correlation-causation.
Jaffe, A. (2010, January 1). Correlation, causation, and association – What does it all mean? Retrieved 14 Aug 2014, from http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/all-about-addiction/201003/correlation-causation-and-association-what-does-it-all-mean.
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Anderson, B., Geras, M. (2018). Correlation Versus Causation. In: Schintler, L., McNeely, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Big Data. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32001-4_45-1
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