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Basic Simpson's paradox
I have a question about something that my statistics teacher said about the following problem:
There are two hospitals named Mercy and Hope in your town. You must choose one of these in which to ...
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Simpson's paradox or confounding?
Consider a scenario where a two-way contingency table is analyzed by a chi-squared test of independence and a significant result is found. Now, it turns out that this table is an aggregation of data ...
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Feature selection for classification, controlling for sub-population
I have a bunch of points that belong to one of population P1, P2, ... Pn AND to class A or B.
Within each population I'll be doing classification between A and B, and I want to select features that ...
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Question about combining hazard ratios - Maybe Simpson's paradox?
I’m reviewing an article, and can’t give details but here is the situation, and it’s got me puzzled
Patients were divided into 4 categories (call them A B C and D), which were exhaustive and ...
