method of concomitant variation

the fifth of the five canons of empirical science laid down by John Stuart Mill. It is meant to establish the causal relationship between phenomena. It holds that if there is a functional relationship between a condition C1 and an effect E1, it may be inferred that there is a causal relationship between one or more of the elements that make up C1 and the resultant E1. Which element of C1 is causal can be established by implementing the rest of Mill’s canons. This strategy is essentially the foundation of modern approaches to experimentation in psychology and is directly related to the problems of inferring causality from correlation.

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generalized linear model (GLM)

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