causal effect

collocation in English

meaningsofcausalandeffect

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causal
adjective
uk
/ˈkɔː.zəl/us
/ˈkɑː.zəl/
a relationship, link, etc. between two things in which one causes ...
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effect
noun
uk
/ɪˈfekt/us
/əˈfekt/
the result of a ...
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(Definition ofcausalandeffectfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In a probabilistic approach, a factor may be a random variable and an influence may be acausaleffecton another factor.
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The dominantcausaleffectof mantle plumes is again emphasized.
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This correlated environmental influence cannot be discriminated from a truecausaleffectwithin the discordant twin design.
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However, it is still possible that thiscausaleffectis not direct but represents the effect of another, earlier environmental factor.
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Moreover, even insiders venture to imagine the counterfactual case and suggest that business lobbying had acausaleffect.
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Evidentialists, however, claim that cooperation may be chosen without assuming acausaleffecton the opponent's choice.
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Similarly, many people prefer to vote in elections rather than abstain even though thecausaleffectis negligible.
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Hence, sending in the light trolley (the means) has the greater good of the six being saved as merely a furthercausaleffectof the means.
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One might conclude that there was acausaleffect—perhaps that should be investigated by scientists.
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In the other instance, there is the directcausaleffectthat the drug was known to cause these tremendous damages.
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It must have had somecausaleffect.
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A preponderance of evidence indicates that there is acausaleffectbetween divorce and these outcomes.
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The view can be divided into emergence which denies mental causation and emergence which allows forcausaleffect.
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Placental insufficiency as a result of smoking has been shown to have acausaleffectin the development of pre-eclampsia.
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The two divisions do not have a productive orcausaleffecton each other.
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Under this assignment mechanism, it is impossible for women to receive treatment and therefore impossible to determine the averagecausaleffecton female subjects.
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If the sample were larger and the variance were less, the averagecausaleffectwould be closer to the true averagecausaleffect.
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If thecausaleffectis always the same, then the averagecausaleffectequals thecausaleffect.
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If the assumption of homogeneity holds, then the averagecausaleffectequals thecausaleffectfor every unit.
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The authors state a researcher can make these bold, causation statements while allowing for variance by using what they call variance ofcausaleffect.
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