“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Cameron Wertheimer, director of corporate ...

What proportion of all 2 × 2 × 2 contingency tables exhibit Simpson's Paradox? An exact answer is obtained for large sample sizes and extended to 2 × 2 × ℓ tables by Monte Carlo approximation.

Simpson's paradox is viewed as one of a natural and coherent collection of association reversal phenomena that are of fundamental importance in statistical practice. Association reversal means that ...

If you were to attempt to name all of the offensive characters in “The Simpsons,” you’d probably lose track after season five. However, no character has a more controversial legacy than Apu ...