Etymology

Simpson's paradox

Today it means: 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. Full definition →

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The story

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

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