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Can you describe how the ecological fallacy is related to Simpson's paradox?
by te 14y ago
Can you describe how the ecological fallacy is related to Simpson's paradox?
- lejohnq 14y agoSimpson's paradox is an example of the ecological fallacy. I think specifically when you have the signs of the group relationship being the opposite of the individual relationship like in http://blog.statwing.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/ecological-fallacy.png http://blog.statwing.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/ecologic.... Wikipedia has more specific math for this at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_fallacy#Simpson.27s_Paradox http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_fallacy#Simpson.27s_...