Wages, Simpson’s paradox and the complexity of statistical analysis

I spotted this good description of Simpson’s paradox in the trend data on wages over at the Inside-R blog today. Revolution Analytics did a good job explaining how Simpson’s paradox applies. At every education level median wages declined. However, for all people median wages have increased over the same time period. The reason for the […]

Posted by Larry on July 30th, 2013 | Comments Off on Wages, Simpson’s paradox and the complexity of statistical analysis Posted in Methodolgy Issues, The Media