Measuring discrimination in socially-sensitive decision records

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics - 9th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining 2009, Proceedings in Applied Mathematics

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 577-588

  Pedreschi, Dino ^a   Ruggieri, Salvatore ^a   Turini, Franco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

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Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION RULE MINING; CLASSIFICATION RULES; CONTINGENCY TABLE; DATA SETS; DISCRIMINATION ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC SCIENCE; GEOGRAPHIC AREAS; HISTORICAL DATA; QUANTITATIVE MEASURES; RULE-BASED CLASSIFIER; STATISTICAL INFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRAINING DATA;

ASSOCIATIVE PROCESSING; CLASSIFIERS; DATA MINING; FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

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