Clonidine is the generic name of Catapres, a medication used to treat high blood pressure. Clonidine works by slowing down your heart rate and relaxing blood vessels. You can take clonidine alone or in combination with other medications to lower blood pressure. Clonidine is in a class of medications called centrally acting alpha-agonist hypotensive agents.
This means there is a relationship between the two events, hours worked and income and also that a change in one event (hours worked) causes a change in the other (income). This is causation in action! Causation indicates a relationship between two events where one event is affected by the other. In statistics, when the value of one event, or variable, increases or decreases as a result of other events, it is said there is causation.
Definition of causation. 1  1a : the act or process of causing the role of heredity in the causation of cancerb : the act or agency which produces an effect in a complex situation causation is likely to be multiple â W. O. Aydelotte. 2  2 : causality.