Measuring Climate Change

Question 1

What is Causation?

Answer 1

A direction from cause to effect establishing that a change in one variable produces a change in another

Question 2

What is a Correlation?

Answer 2

It gives an indication of whether 2 variables move together

Question 3

What is a Spurious Correlation?

Answer 3

A strong linear association between 2 variables that does not result from any direct relationship, but instead may be due to coincidence or to another unseen factor

Question 4

What is a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG)?

Answer 4

A set of nodes and arrows with no directed cycles and its a complete set of all causal relationships. The nodes represent variables and the arrows represent causal effects

Question 5

What is Confounding?

Answer 5

When the treatment and the outcomes have a common cause which creates a spurious correlation

Question 6

What is a Collider?

Answer 6

A variable which is causally influenced by 2 or more variables