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23 Dec

Understanding Simpson’s Paradox And Its Impact On Data Analytics

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The Simpson’s paradox arises in many real-world contexts. It is mathematically very trivial but involves deep statistical meaning. In fact, there is a whole website dedicated to Simpson paradox. Simpson Paradox or the Yule-Simpson effect was first described by Edward Simpson in a technical paper in 1951 but Karl Pearson and Udny Yule had noticed…

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06 Dec

5 Paradoxes Which Left Artificial Intelligence Researchers In A Lurch

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Mark Twain’s witty remark that all generalisations are false, including this one; reminds one of contradictory nature of the human mind. The mind concocts and contradicts a million thoughts while using up its residual reasoning to come up with something which betrays its own origin — a paradox.   Here is a list of paradoxes…

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