The ubiquity of the Simpson’s Paradox
Abstract The Simpson’s Paradox is the phenomenon that appears in some datasets, where subgroups with a common trend (say, all negative trend) show the reverse trend when they are aggregated (say, positive trend). Even if this issue has an elementary mathematical explanation, it has a deep statistica...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer
2017-03-01
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| Series: | Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40488-017-0056-5 |