Attribution
# 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
