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Apr 11, 2016 18 min

Ecological Inference and Simpson's Paradox

from Linear Digressions Hosted by Katie Malone

Simpson's paradox is the data science equivalent of looking through one eye and seeing a very clear trend, and then looking through the other eye and seeing the very clear opposite trend. In one case, you see a trend one way in a group, but then breaking the group into subgroups gives the exact opposite trend. Confused? Scratching your head? Welcome to the tricky world of ecological inference. Relevant links: https://gking.harvard.edu/files/gking/files/part1.pdf http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2013/07/a-great-example-of-simpsons-paradox.html

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