"The subsequent investigation found the earlier inadequate maintenance to be inappropriate but noncausative.; Such statistical analysis can establish correlation but cannot tell us whether the correlation is proximally causative, distally causative, or noncausative."
2.AdjectiveNot a cause.
"The subsequent investigation found the earlier inadequate maintenance to be inappropriate but noncausative."
3.AdjectiveNot involving, or affected by, causality.
"Such statistical analysis can establish correlation but cannot tell us whether the correlation is proximally causative, distally causative, or noncausative."