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 ...

, concept in copyright law requiring an author to be credited *

Attribution (journalism) In journalism, a source is a person, publication, or knowledge of other record or document that gives timely information. Outside journalism, sources are sometimes known as "news sources". Examples of sources include official records, publicatio ...

, 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 (MTA), 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. Ma ...

, 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 ...

, 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 the identification and quantification of the role that human-caused climate change plays in the frequency and intensity of Rare events, extreme weather events. Attribution science ai ...

, estimation of how climate change affects recent extreme weather events *

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 benchm ...

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

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