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The Interpretation of Interaction in Contingency Tables
Abstract
Summary The definition of second order interaction in a (2 × 2 × 2) table given by Bartlett is accepted, but it is shown by an example that the vanishing of this second order interaction does not necessarily justify the mechanical procedure of forming the three component 2 × 2 tables and testing each of these for significance by standard methods.
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“Indeed, the relationship between body composition and BMI represents a clear example of Simpson’s paradox (Simpson, 1951).”
From The degree to which the cultural ideal is internalized predicts judgments of male and female physical attractiveness (2022) · cites this paper as Simpson, 1951
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“The classical example demonstrating the obstacle of causal vocabulary is Simpson's paradox (Simpson, 1951) - a reversal phenomenon that earns its claim to fame only through a causal interpretation of the data (Pearl, 2000a, Chapter 6).”
From Causal inference in statistics: An overview (2009) · cites this paper as Simpson, 1951
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“Our work extends this to the causal domain, showing that models will endorse logical traps (like Simpson's Paradox (Simpson, 1951)) if pressed.”
From Diagnosing and Mitigating Sycophancy and Skepticism in LLM Causal Judgment (2026) · cites this paper as Simpson, 1951
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The Logic of Inductive Inference
Fisher, R. A. (1935) · Journal Of The Royal Statistical Society · doi:10.2307/2342435 · Cited by 1,308
124: The Logic of Inductive Inference.
Fisher, R. A. (1935) · Adelaide Research & Scholarship (AR&S) (University of Adelaide) · Cited by 881
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Bartlett, M. S. (1935) · Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology) · doi:10.2307/2983639 · Cited by 313
Calculation of Chi-Square for Complex Contingency Tables
Norton, H. W. (1945) · Journal of the American Statistical Association · doi:10.1080/01621459.1945.10501855 · Cited by 66
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Diagnosing and Mitigating Sycophancy and Skepticism in LLM Causal Judgment
Chang, E. Y. (2026) · Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 · doi:10.18653/v1/2026.findings-acl.427 · Cited by 2
“Our work extends this to the causal domain, showing that models will endorse logical traps (like Simpson’s Paradox (Simpson, 1951)) if pressed.”
Influential(1988) · Cited by 16,582
Counterfactual Reasoning and Learning Systems
(2012) · arXiv (Cornell University) · doi:10.5555/2567709.2567766 · Cited by 97
“Such an inversion of the conclusion is called Simpson’s paradox (Simpson, 1951).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Simpson, E. H.
- Corresponding author
- Simpson, E. H.
- Venue
- Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 1951-07-01
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 238-241
- ISSN
- 1369-7412 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-9868
- OpenAlex
- W2905472553
- Cited by
- 2,301
- References
- 6
- Citations by year
- 2026: 92 · 2025: 136 · 2024: 122 · 2023: 113 · 2022: 116 · 2021: 121 · 2020: 165 · 2019: 101 · 2018: 94 · 2017: 78 · 2016: 87 · 2015: 84 · 2014: 75 · 2013: 57 · 2012: 109
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- academic.oup.com/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model (vor)
- Locations
- Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology) (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Probability and Statistical Research
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Statistical Methods and Applications
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference
- Keywords
- second-order interactions, three-way contingency tables, marginal homogeneity, interaction testing, categorical data analysis
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