Simpson’s Paradox is suppression, but Lord’s Paradox is neither: clarification of and correction to Tu, Gunnell, and Gilthorpe (2008)

Simpson’s Paradox is suppression, but Lord’s Paradox is neither: clarification of and correction to Tu, Gunnell, and Gilthorpe (2008)

Abstract Tu et al. (Emerg Themes Epidemiol 5:2, 2008. https://doi.org/10.1186/1742-7622-5-2) asserted that suppression, Simpson’s Paradox, and Lord’s Paradox are all the same phenomenon—the reversal paradox. In the reversal paradox, the association between an outcome variable and an explanatory (pre...

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Main Authors: Carol A. Nickerson, Nicholas J. L. Brown
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-11-01
Series:Emerging Themes in Epidemiology
Subjects:
Confounding
Contingency table
Epidemiology
Lord’s Paradox
Regression
Reversal paradox
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12982-019-0087-0

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