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SIMPSON’S PARADOX

• Any statistical relationship between two variables may be reversed by including additional factors in the analysis.

• Application: The adjustment problem
• • Which factors should be included in the analysis.

  (Pearson et al. 1899; Yule 1903; Simpson 1951)

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