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Simpson's Paradox: Examples
Bokai Wang1, Pan Wu2, Brian Kwan3
1Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA.
Shanghai Archives of Psychiatry
|May 9, 2018
Abstract:
Simpson's paradox is very prevalent in many areas. It characterizes the inconsistency between the conditional and marginal interpretations of the data. In this paper, we illustrate through some examples how the Simpson's paradox can happen in continuous, categorical, and time-to-event data.