Attribution may refer to: * Attribution (copyright), concept in copyright law requiring an author to be credited *

Attribution (journalism) In journalism, a source is a person, publication, or knowledge other record or document that gives timely information. Outside journalism, sources are sometimes known as "news sources". Examples of sources include but are not limited to officia ...

, the identification of the source of reported information * Attribution (law), legal doctrines by which liability is extended to a defendant who did not actually commit the criminal act * Attribution (marketing), concept in marketing of assigning a value to a marketing activity based on desired outcome * Attribution (psychology), concept in psychology whereby people attribute traits and causes to things they observe *

Extreme event attribution Extreme event attribution, also known as attribution science, is a relatively new field of study in meteorology and climate science that tries to measure how ongoing climate change directly affects recent extreme weather events. Attribution scien ...

, estimation of how climate change affects recent extreme weather events * Performance attribution, technique in quantitative finance for explaining the active performance of a portfolio

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