Simpson's paradox

phenomenon in probability and statistics, in which a trend appears in several different groups of data but disappears or reverses when these groups are combined
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"Simpson's reversal"@en
"Yule–Simpson effect"@en
"amalgamation paradox"@en
"reversal paradox"@en
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"phenomenon in probability and statistics, in which a trend appears in several different groups of data but disappears or reverses when these groups are combined"@en
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