Spurious relationship
Apparent, but false, correlation between causally-independent variables / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In statistics, a spurious relationship or spurious correlation[1][2] is a mathematical relationship in which two or more events or variables are associated but not causally related, due to either coincidence or the presence of a certain third, unseen factor (referred to as a "common response variable", "confounding factor", or "lurking variable").