Attribution may refer to: *

Attribution (copyright) Attribution, in copyright law, is acknowledgment as credit to the copyright holder or author of a work. If a work is under copyright, there is a long tradition of the author requiring attribution while directly quoting portions of work created by ...

, concept in copyright law requiring an author to be credited * Attribution (journalism), the identification of the source of reported information *

Attribution (law) Doctrines of attribution are legal doctrines by which liability is extended to a defendant who did not actually commit the criminal act.

, legal doctrines by which liability is extended to a defendant who did not actually commit the criminal act *

Attribution (marketing) In marketing, attribution, also known as multi-touch attribution, is the identification of a set of user actions ("events" or "touchpoints") that contribute to a desired outcome, and then the assignment of a value to each of these events. Marketing ...

, concept in marketing of assigning a value to a marketing activity based on desired outcome *

Attribution (psychology) Attribution is a term used in psychology which deals with how individuals perceive the causes of everyday experience, as being either external or internal. Models to explain this process are called attribution theory. Psychological research into a ...

, concept in psychology whereby people attribute traits and causes to things they observe *

Performance attribution Performance attribution, or investment performance attribution is a set of techniques that performance analysts use to explain why a portfolio's performance differed from the benchmark. This difference between the portfolio return and the benchma ...

, technique in quantitative finance for explaining the active performance of a portfolio

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