Statics Interview Question:

Simpsons Paradox occurs when?

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* a) No baseline risk is given, so it is not know whether a a high relative risk has practical importance
* b) High relative risk has practical importance
* b) A confounding variable rather than the explanatory variable is responsible for a change in the response variable.
* c) The direction of the relationship between two variables changes when the categories of a confounding variable are taken into account.
* d) The results of a test are statistically significant but are really due to chance.

Answer - c
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