Example sentences for: causation

How can you use “causation” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • We do, however, consider one possible factor in the second paper in this set, airborne carcinogens [ 1 ] . But, as this is a study of encountered data, and data that are aggregated to a coarse spatial scale, it would be impossible to establish causation from these data on their own.

  • The association between smoking and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has been widely reported [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 ] and was recently reviewed [ 20 ] . The specific association between smoking and rheumatoid factor (RF)-positive RA is well known and meets the Bradford Hill criteria for causation [ 22 ] , namely strength, consistency, plausibility, experimental evidence, coherence, temporality, and biologic gradient of association [ 1 7 8 16 17 20 ] .

  • gastroesophageal reflux disease, post lye ingestion esophagus, chronic gastritis, long-term tamoxifen therapy), and tend not to regress so long as the causation persists.

  • The third and most difficult issue in studies of overweight and mortality is reverse causation, the impact of disease on body weight.

  • But I will also say that you are very correct in pointing out the basic statistical mistake of implying causation from correlation.


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