Spurious relationship - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spurious_relationshipAn example of a spurious relationship can be found in the time-series literature, where a spurious regression is a regression that provides misleading statistical evidence of a linear relationship between independent non-stationary variables. In fact, the non-stationarity may be due to the presence of a unit root in both variables. In particular, any two nominal economic variablesare likely to be correlated with each other, even when neither has a causal effect on the other, because ea…
Spurious Regression With Stationary Time Series – MSR ...
blog.ms-researchhub.com › 2019/10/26 › spuriousOct 26, 2019 · They define spurious regression as “A spurious regression occurs when a pair of independent series but with strong temporal properties, are found apparently to be related according to standard inference in an OLS regression”. The use of term temporal properties implies that they assume the spurious regression to be time series related phenomenon. But a 100 years ago, Pearson has shown the spurious regression a cross-sectional data.