Yule-Simpson's paradox: the probabilistic versus the empirical conundrum

DOI10.1007/S10260-020-00536-4MaRDI QIDQ2059112zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Aris Spanos

Publication date 13 December 2021

Published in Statistical Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10260-020-00536-4

zbMATH Keywords

association reversalcolliderconfoundingDAG modelsgraphical causal modelsmediatormisspecification testingprobabilistic versus empirical paradoxesSimpson's paradoxspurious correlationstatistical misspecificationstatistical versus substantive adequacythird entityuntrustworthy evidence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01)

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