Vol. 181, No. 2, THE 37TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY FOR EXACT PHILOSOPHY (SEP 09) (July 2011), pp. 185-208 (24 pages) There are three distinct questions associated with Simpson's paradox, (i) Why ...
A few months ago, I posted a blog that raised the question, “What explains racial, gender, and other group-based gaps?” After acknowledging the existence of all sorts of gaps across all sorts of ...
What proportion of all 2 × 2 × 2 contingency tables exhibit Simpson's Paradox? An exact answer is obtained for large sample sizes and extended to 2 × 2 × ℓ tables by Monte Carlo approximation.
How do you prove that smoking is beneficial to your health? By employing Simpson’s Paradox, of course. This paradox shows that a large grouping of data can be worth much less than the sum of its parts ...
If you were to attempt to name all of the offensive characters in “The Simpsons,” you’d probably lose track after season five. However, no character has a more controversial legacy than Apu ...
The greatest tennis player of the past 25 years is the worst tennis player of the past 25 years in one statistical category. As detailed in The Atlantic, Ryan Rodenberg and his research partners ...
A few months ago, I posted a blog that raised the question, “What explains racial, gender, and other group-based gaps?” After acknowledging the existence of all sorts of gaps across all sorts of ...