Causation describes a relationship between two events in which:

One event is the results of the occurrence of the other event; that is there is a causal relationship between the two events. For example: Lisa got dirty because she played with mud; or John is late for school because he over-slept.

Explanation:

Causation goes hand-in-hand with correlation, is a statistical measure that describes the size and direction of a relationship between two or more variables.