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Marcus Crede @marcuscrede.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Is this a version of Lord's paradox?

Sean Harrison, PhD @sean-h.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I suspect Lord's paradox is a) not a paradox, and b) is the result of having shitty data where regressing on the baseline variable is necessarily incorrect. So I'd say "no", but I think I'm in a minority (though not alone) in thinking about Lord's paradox this way: seanharrison.blog/2025/10/12/y...

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(Yet another) Lord’s paradox revisitation

Lord’s paradox has been irritating epidemiologists and statisticians for decades. Lord’s original 1967 article is not easily accessible (if you’re an academic you can probably get it, but seriously…

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