causal influence
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcausalandinfluence
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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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influence
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈɪn.flu.əns/us/ˈɪn.flu.əns/
the power to have an effect on people or things, or a person or thing that is able to ...
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This is very likely to be acausalinfluence, because the subsequent delays are prevented by better feeding.
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Normally in data analyses, one wants to exclude any possibility of attributingcausalinfluenceto one variable that actually belongs to another.
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Were there any doubt on this point, we could observe that more than one object may havecausalinfluenceon the character of an object.
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The second challenge is to develop modelling methods to explore the likely direction of anycausalinfluencebetween smoking and depression.
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I shall, therefore, discuss mainly thecausalinfluenceof the body on the soul and not the reverse.
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Acausalinfluencethat is present in all cases of an illness, and only among individuals with that illness, is both necessary and sufficient.
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Previous longitudinal studies are limited in their capacity to demonstrate thecausalinfluenceof parenting.
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I restrict the tabular presentation of findings to those coefficients that measure thecausalinfluence of interstate contagion on the congressional vote.
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This is a way for us to regulate thecausalinfluenceon our characters of our own actions.
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Incausalinfluencemodels, these properties are represented by means of mathematical variables of the domain theory, such as current or velocity.
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The skeptical interpretation is that attributions are epiphenomena with nocausalinfluenceover behavior.
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Clearly, people do not feel will because they somehow immediately know their owncausalinfluenceas it happens.
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Causalinfluencemay accordingly run in both directions.
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According to this model, media violence is explicitly considered a weakcausalinfluence.
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The dependence involved is more thancausalinfluence.
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He found that participants ascribed morecausalinfluenceto the person they were looking at.
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In his view, while open systems can still behave causally, the incoming causal influences interfere with knowledge and predictability.
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It must be kept in mind that we are rarely in a position to measure putative causal influences directly.
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Accordingly, it is essential to use research designs that can detect the direction of causal influences.
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