English Explanatory Dictionary

Simpson's paradox

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  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.

Word forms

Simpson's paradox

Etymology

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

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