{"id":9,"date":"2000-04-24T00:14:36","date_gmt":"2000-04-24T07:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mii.ucla.edu\/causality\/?p=17"},"modified":"2000-04-24T00:14:36","modified_gmt":"2000-04-24T07:14:36","slug":"simpsons-paradox-and-decision-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2000\/04\/24\/simpsons-paradox-and-decision-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Simpson\u2019s paradox and decision trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From <\/strong><font><strong>Nimrod Megiddo (IBM Almaden) <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font>I do not agree that &quot;causality&quot; is the key to resolving the paradox (but this is also a matter of definition) and that tools for looking at it did not exist twenty years ago. Coming from game theory, I think the issue is not difficult for people who like to draw decision trees with &quot;decision&quot; nodes distinguished from &quot;chance&quot; nodes. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font>I drew two such trees on the attached Word document which I think clarify the correct decision in different circumstances.<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/bayes.cs.ucla.edu\/BOOK-2K\/trees.html\"> Click here for viewing the trees.<\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Nimrod Megiddo (IBM Almaden) I do not agree that &quot;causality&quot; is the key to resolving the paradox (but this is also a matter of definition) and that tools for looking at it did not exist twenty years ago. Coming from game theory, I think the issue is not difficult for people who like to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decision-trees","category-simpsons-paradox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}