What does association mean?
association
Plural: associations
Definition
An observed relationship in which events, characteristics or changes occur together, without that relationship alone establishing that one causes another.
Example sentences
There is an association, but we have not established that the new lights caused the drop.
There is an association, but we have not established that the new lights caused the drop.
Those figures show an association; they don't establish that one change led to the other.
Those figures show an association; they don't establish that one change led to the other.