"Simpson's paradox" meaning in English

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Proper name

Etymology: Edward H. Simpson first described this phenomenon in a technical paper in 1951. Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Simpson's paradox
  1. The observation that the association of two variables for one subset of a population may be similar to the association of those variables in another subset, but different from the association of the variables in the total population.
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