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