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Simpson's paradox — (or the Yule Simpson effect) is a statistical paradox wherein the successes of groups seem reversed when the groups are combined. This result is often encountered in social and medical science statistics [cite journal title = Simpson s Paradox in … Wikipedia
Simpson's paradox — Not a proper paradox, but a surprising possibility in the application of statistics, in which something true of each subset of a population need not be true of the population as a whole. For example, in each separate faculty of a university the… … Philosophy dictionary
Simpson — may refer to:* Simpson (name)In places:*In Australia: **Simpson Desert*In Canada: **Simpson, Saskatchewan*In the United Kingdom **Simpson, Buckinghamshire* In the United States **Simpson, Illinois **Simpson, Indiana **Simpson, Kansas **Simpson,… … Wikipedia
Simpson-Paradoxon — Grafische Darstellung des Simpson Paradoxons: von den mit 1 beschriften Vektoren hat der rote die größere Steigung, genau wie bei den mit 2 beschrifteten. Trotzdem hat die Vektorsumme der roten Vektoren eine kleinere Steigung als die der blauen.… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Simpson's Paradoxon — Grafische Darstellung des Simpson Paradoxons Das Simpson Paradoxon (auch simpsonsches Paradoxon oder Simpson sches Paradoxon) ist ein Paradoxon aus der Statistik und wurde zuerst 1951 von Edward Hugh Simpson untersucht. Dabei scheint es, dass die … Deutsch Wikipedia
Paradox — For other uses, see Paradox (disambiguation). Further information: List of paradoxes A paradox is a seemingly true statement or group of statements that lead to a contradiction or a situation which seems to defy logic or intuition. Typically,… … Wikipedia
Simpson (name) — Family name name = imagesize= caption= meaning = son of Simme region =Anglo Scottish origin =United Kingdom related names = footnotes = Simpson is an Anglo Scottish patronymic surname from the medieval masculine given name Simme . The earliest… … Wikipedia
Paradox — Ein Paradoxon oder Paradox (altgriechisch παράδοξον, von παρα , para – gegen und δόξα, dóxa – Meinung, Ansicht), auch Paradoxie (παραδοξία) und in der Mehrzahl Paradoxa g … Deutsch Wikipedia
Parrondo's paradox — is a paradox in game theory and is often described as: A losing strategy that wins . It is named after its creator Juan Parrondo, a Spanish physicist. Mathematically a more involved statement is given as:: Given two games, each with a higher… … Wikipedia
Low birth weight paradox — The low birth weight paradox is an apparently paradoxical observation relating to the birth weights and mortality of children born to tobacco smoking mothers. Low birth weight children born to smoking mothers have a lower infant mortality rate… … Wikipedia
