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Simpson's Paradox in COVID-19 Case Fatality Rates: A Mediation Analysis of Age-Related Causal Effects

We point out an instantiation of Simpson's paradox in COVID-19 case fatality rates (cfrs): comparing a large-scale study from China (February 17) with early reports from Italy (March 9), we find that cfrs are lower in Italy for every age group, but higher overall. This phenomenon is explained b...

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Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: IEEE 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8791436/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35233556
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TAI.2021.3073088