Data preprocessing techniques for classification without discrimination

Knowledge and Information Systems

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-33

  Kamiran, Faisal ^a   Calders, Toon ^a  

^a NONE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Classification; Discrimination aware data mining; Preprocessing

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

ALGORITHMIC SOLUTIONS; DATA PREPROCESSING TECHNIQUE; DECISION PROCESS; PREPROCESSING; PREPROCESSING TECHNIQUES; SENSITIVE ATTRIBUTE; TWO-CLASS CLASSIFICATION PROBLEMS; UNOBSERVED FEATURES;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 84867097035     PISSN: 02191377     EISSN: 02193116     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10115-011-0463-8     Document Type: Article

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