Simpson's paradox

English

Etymology

Edward H. Simpson first described this phenomenon in a technical paper in 1951.

Proper noun

Simpson's paradox

  1. The observation that the association of two variables for one subset of a population may be similar to the association of those variables in another subset, but different from the association of the variables in the total population.

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