SIMPSON’S PARADOX EXPLAINED
Normal Deviate 2013-06-20
Summary:
SIMPSON’S PARADOX EXPLAINED Imagine a treatment with the following properties: The treatment is good for men (E1) The treatment is good for women (E2) The treatment bad overall (E3) That’s the essence of Simpson’s paradox. But there is no such treatment. Statements (E1), (E2) and (E3) cannot all be true simultaneously. Simpson’s paradox occurs when […]