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Understanding Simpson's Paradox

11 Vaniver 18 September 2013 07:07PM

An article by Judea Pearl, available here. It's quick at 8 pages, and worth reading if you enjoy statistics (though I think people who already are familiar with the math of causality1 will get more out of it than others2). I'll talk here about the part that I think is generally interesting:

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