Please help me to understand this sentence (Biostat)

[mooong]

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[deleted850921]

Correlation does not equal causation.

There's a correlation there where hs-CRP predicts fracture risk (that's generally independent as far as the other variables tested), but it's not clear (aka there's no evidence) whether hs-CRP directly causes fracture risk. There's probably some unknown variables at play here.

 

[993444]

TL;DR version is that the the correlation is a mystery and has nothing that can connect them (no known confounder or mechanism of causality).

 

[deweystrontium]

This is pretty much the way to think about it.

 

[gyngyn]

Closing homework help.