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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2019-11-01
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| Series: | Emerging Themes in Epidemiology |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12982-019-0087-0 |