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.
Causational Research. Causation research is more often called the experimental method. What makes this so important in science is that it is the ONLY way to show cause and effect. Trying to show that one thing causes another thing to change is really hard to do. Let us take an example.