Common cause and special cause (statistics)
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Common cause and special cause (statistics)
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Common and special causes are the two distinct origins of variation in a process, as defined in the statistical thinking and methods of Walter A. Shewhart and W. Edwards Deming. Briefly, "common causes", also called natural patterns, are the usual, historical, quantifiable variation in a system, while "special causes" are unusual, not previously observed, non-quantifiable variation. The distinction is fundamental in philosophy of statistics and philosophy of probability, with different treatment
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Statistics concept
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_cause_and_special_cause_(statistics)
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2023-12-11T11:05:41Z
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