Pedreschi D., Ruggieri S., Turini F. A study of top-k measures for discrimination discovery. In: SAC '12 - 27th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (Riva del Garda (Trento), Italy, 26-30 March 2012). Proceedings, pp. 126 - 131. ACM, 2012. |
Abstract (English) |
Data mining approaches for discrimination discovery unveil contexts of possible discrimination against protected-by-law groups by extracting classication rules from a dataset of historical decision records. Rules are ranked according to some legally-grounded contrast measure dened over a 4- fold contingency table, including risk dierence, risk ratio, odds ratio, and a few others. Due to time and cost con- straints, however, only the top-k ranked rules are taken into further consideration by an anti-discrimination analyst. In this paper, we study to what extent the sets of top-k ranked rules with respect to any two pairs of measures agree | |
URL: | http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2245303 | |
DOI: | 10.1145/2245276.2245303 | |
Subject | Discrimination discovery Classes Algorithms Legal Aspects H.2.8 Database Applications |
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