Attribution

Attribution may refer to:Attribution (copyright), concept in copyright law requiring an author to be credited Attribution (journalism), 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, estimation of how climate change affects recent extreme weather events Performance attribution, technique in quantitative finance for explaining the active performance of a portfolio