Attribution
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, searchAttribution may refer to:
- Attribution (copyright), concept in copyright law requiring an author to be credited
- Attribution (psychology) Fritz Heider argued that, as an active perceiver of the events, the average person continuously or spontaneously makes causal inferences on why the events occur. Eventually, these inferences become beliefs or expectations that allow the person to predict and understand the events that they observe and experience. As such, attribution theory is, concept in psychology whereby people attribute traits and causes to things they observe
- Performance attribution, technique in quantitative finance for explaining the active performance of a portfolio
- Journalism sourcing In journalism, a source is a person, publication, or other record or document that gives information. Outside journalism, sources are sometimes known as a "news source". Examples of sources include official records, publications or broadcasts, officials in government or business, organizations or corporations, witnesses of crime, (or attribution), journalistic practice of attributing information to its source
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