title: Attribution
text: # 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
  