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Pages in category "Statistical paradoxes" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Abelson's paradox;
Bertrand's box paradox: A paradox of conditional probability closely related to the Boy or Girl paradox. Bertrand's paradox: Different common-sense definitions of randomness give quite different results. Birthday paradox: In a random group of only 23 people, there is a better than 50/50 chance two of them have the same birthday.
Simpson's paradox is a phenomenon in probability and statistics in which a trend appears in several groups of data but disappears or reverses when the groups are combined. This result is often encountered in social-science and medical-science statistics, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and is particularly problematic when frequency data are unduly given ...
Pages in category "Paradoxes in economics" The following 43 pages are in this category, out of 43 total. ... Statistics; Cookie statement; Mobile view ...
Pages in category "Probability theory paradoxes" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. ... Statistics; Cookie statement; Mobile view ...
Topics about Paradoxes in general should be placed in relevant topic categories. Pages in this category should be moved to subcategories where applicable. This category may require frequent maintenance to avoid becoming too large.
Lord's Paradox and associated analyses provide a powerful teaching tool to understand these fundamental statistical concepts. More directly, Lord's Paradox may have implications for both education and health policies that attempt to reward educators or hospitals for the improvements that their children/patients made under their care, which is ...
Berkson's paradox, also known as Berkson's bias, collider bias, or Berkson's fallacy, is a result in conditional probability and statistics which is often found to be counterintuitive, and hence a veridical paradox. It is a complicating factor arising in statistical tests of proportions.