The Forest or the Trees? Tackling Simpson's Paradox with Classi fication and Regression Trees
The Forest or the Trees? Tackling Simpson's Paradox with Classi fication and Regression Trees
Prediction and variable selection are major uses of data mining algorithms but they are rarely the focus in social science research, where the main objective is causal explanation. Ideal causal modeling is based on randomized experiments, but because experiments are often impossible, unethical or expensive to perform, social science research …