causal direction

collocation in English

meanings of causaland direction

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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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direction
noun
uk /daɪˈrek.ʃən/ us /dɪˈrek.ʃən/
the position towards which someone or something moves ...
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Examples of causal direction

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Untangling the causaldirection allows us to investigate whether political conversation makes good citizens, or whether it is good citizens who engage in political conversation.
But we do not know for certain its causaldirection.
A developmental approach might help us better infer the causaldirection between language-thought links.
Further, even if confounds are adequately controlled, it is possible that the sequence of initiation may not tell the whole story of causaldirection.
However, such correlations raise the issue of causaldirection, third factors, and the nature of any influence.
In consequence, the models allow us to check on causaldirection in the relationship between conversation and democratically desirable attitudes.
It is important to note that the correlational nature of our data makes it impossible to firmly establish the causaldirection among our study variables.
First, with respect to ambiguities about causaldirection, we must recognise that children's social understanding necessarily develops in the context of their social experience.
To address causaldirection, we used cumulative averages of predictor variables 6 months before disease progression or mortality was assessed.
The implication of this study is that the causaldirection is more likely from network to the respondent, rather than the reverse.
A fourth caution for interpreting the data involves the establishment of causaldirection of relationships evidenced in this study.
The causaldirection of the chronic pain-depression relationship is still unclear and cannot be resolved using the cross-sectional data that comprise most research studies.
A good deal of scientific effort has gone into testing the causaldirection of the correlation between hostile attributional bias and aggressive behavior.
There are then two case studies, one about the direction of the relation between taxes and government spending and the second on the causaldirection between money and prices.
And in the causaldirection of social person to social world, most intentional states underlying a person's everyday actions are directed at caring for his or her inalienable possessions.
However, we need to consider the fact that the correlational nature of our data does not allow us to establish the causaldirection of such a relation.
The use of temporal data can permit statistical tests of a pre-existing theory of causaldirection.
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Other scholars have concluded that the causaldirection of partisanship must be questioned.
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This conclusion highlights the limitations of passive longitudinal research for establishing causal directions.
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