Simpson's Paradox is really a Simple Paradox if one at all. Peeling away the paradox is as easy (or hard) as avoiding a comparison of apples and oranges, a concept requiring no mention of causality. We show how the commonly adopted notation has committed the gross-ery mistake of tagging unlike...

We propose a straightforward approach for simulation of discrete random variables with overdispersion, specified marginal means, and product correlations. The method stems from results we prove for variables with first-order antedependence and linearity of the conditional expectations and is...