Bruce W. Carlson
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Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. His contributions to SAGE Publications's Encyclopedia of Research Design (2010) formed the basis of his contributions to Britannica.
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Simpson’s paradox, in statistics, an effect that occurs when the marginal association between two categorical variables is qualitatively different from the partial association between the same two variables after controlling for one or more other variables. Simpson’s paradox is important for three…
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