Vol. 181, No. 2, THE 37TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY FOR EXACT PHILOSOPHY (SEP 09) (July 2011), pp. 185-208 (24 pages) There are three distinct questions associated with Simpson's paradox, (i) Why ...

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This paper discusses Simpson's paradox and the problem of positive relevance in probabilistic causality. It is argued that Cartwright's solution to Simpson's paradox fails because it ignores one ...

A few months ago, I posted a blog that raised the question, “What explains racial, gender, and other group-based gaps?” After acknowledging the existence of all sorts of gaps across all sorts of ...

How do you prove that smoking is beneficial to your health? By employing Simpson’s Paradox, of course. This paradox shows that a large grouping of data can be worth much less than the sum of its parts ...