“The Simpsons” showrunner Al Jean has answered some of the criticism to the show’s response to “The Problem With Apu” documentary, ultimately promising to contemplate the issue further ...

Simpson’s paradox, also known as the reversal paradox, works whenever an unacknowledged third factor is thrown into the mix.

Colin R. Blyth, On Simpson's Paradox and the Sure-Thing Principle, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 67, No. 338 (Jun., 1972), pp. 364-366 ...

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It seems very peculiar, but the paradox is actually easy to explain. In our goalkicking example, the key is the year 2006.

Simpson’s paradox is much easier to understand when illustrated with an example. Suppose an agency is running a campaign with click-through rate (CTR) as the main objective.

Conditional probabilities of the occurrence of Simpson's Paradox are also derived. If the observed cell proportions satisfy a Simpson reversal, the posterior probability that the population parameters ...