6.1 Assignment

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The situation you can investigate hereafter, has been devised.

 

Two cruise ships A and B carry passengers on one and the same lake.

Type boat, the size and age of both boats are the same,

By particularly bad weather  the boats get into difficulties and capsize.

On both boats there were both older and younger people.

The question is whether the Simpson's paradox applies in this case.

 

For each of the two boats there is a crosstab with the data of the disaster

Click the button for an overview of the numbers.

 

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