causal interpretation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcausalandinterpretation
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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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interpretation
noun[C or U]
uk/ɪnˌtɜː.prəˈteɪ.ʃən/us/ɪnˌtɝː.prəˈteɪ.ʃən/
an explanation or opinion of what ...
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The booing event unfolds together with the players' leaving the pitch and nocausalinterpretationis possible.
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However, notice that, as was remarked above, acausalinterpretationis still possible.
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Later, when the bootstrapping strategy is abandoned, children would revert to the default,causalinterpretation.
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The majority of these, to be sure, had a clear syntactic break after seeing, with no possibility of acausalinterpretation.
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These difficulties are neither new nor specific to thecausalinterpretationadopted here for extended preferences.
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Acausalinterpretationof the link between attachment cognitions and functioning would be strengthened by evidence of prospective associations between attachment cognitions and future functioning.
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Epstein also presents evidence favoring acausalinterpretationrather than a correlational interpretation of such percept-percept couplings.
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Even if the evidence should suggest that some women gained property in the aftermath of the married women's property acts, there remains a difficult question ofcausalinterpretation.
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But perhaps we are relying here on the ordinary interpretation (*), and thecausalinterpretation(**) would deliver a different conclusion.
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There were suggestions of an increased risk of glioma at the highest exposure levels, but biases and error prevent acausalinterpretation.
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It could be that the older preschoolers were drawn to causal interpretations by the consistent presence across all test items of these resulting end states.
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A further limitation of the current study is the cross-sectional design, which allows no causal interpretations of the findings.
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Note that to justify the causal interpretations, most of the independent variables were taken from the wave preceding the report of parent care.
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We also argued that it was essential to generate observable implications of competing causal interpretations consistent with these considerations.
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This result is often encountered in social-science and medical-science statistics, and is particularly confounding when frequency data are unduly given causal interpretations.
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