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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;
False positive paradox: A test that is accurate the vast majority of the time could show you have a disease, but the probability that you actually have it could still be tiny. Grice's paradox : Shows that the exact meaning of statements involving conditionals and probabilities is more complicated than may be obvious on casual examination.
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 ...
Peto's paradox is the observation that, at the species level, the incidence of cancer does not appear to correlate with the number of cells in an organism. [1] For example, the incidence of cancer in humans is much higher than the incidence of cancer in whales , [ 2 ] despite whales having more cells than humans.
Also confidence coefficient. A number indicating the probability that the confidence interval (range) captures the true population mean. For example, a confidence interval with a 95% confidence level has a 95% chance of capturing the population mean. Technically, this means that, if the experiment were repeated many times, 95% of the CIs computed at this level would contain the true population ...
The NFL playoff schedule is about to be set, with the wild-card dates and times for every matchup to be revealed during Week 18.
[fn 1] This can also be seen from Figure 2(b), which allows D to causally affect Y while, simultaneously, be statistically independent of it (due to path cancelations). This resolution of Lord’s Paradox answers both questions: (1) How to allow for preexisting differences between groups and (2) Why the data appear paradoxical.
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