Attribution Explained

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

See also

• Attribute (disambiguation)
• Credits