A study of top-k measures for discrimination discovery

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 126-131

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

classification rules; discrimination discovery

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION RULES; CONTINGENCY TABLE; COST CONSTRAINTS; DATA SETS; DISCRIMINATION DISCOVERY; ODDS RATIOS; RISK DIFFERENCE;

COMPUTATION THEORY;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 84863576417     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2245276.2245303     Document Type: Conference Paper

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