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  2. Year: 2025
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Month: March 2025

Data Correlation and the Simpson Paradox

Posted on March 25, 2025

Summary Simpson’s paradox is a fascinating statistical phenomenon where the observed relationship between two variables can be reversed when the data is divided into subgroups. For biologists and biochemists, this means that the correlation between …

Posted in bioinformatics, Computing, Scientific Communication, StatisticsTagged penguis, R, Simpson’s Paradox, statistics

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