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09/12/2022
Random Isn't Always Fair: Candidate Set Imbalance and Exposure Inequality in Recommender Systems
Traditionally, recommender systems operate by returning a user a set of ...
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05/30/2022
Measuring and mitigating voting access disparities: a study of race and polling locations in Florida and North Carolina
Voter suppression and associated racial disparities in access to voting ...
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05/26/2022
Flipping the Script on Criminal Justice Risk Assessment: An actuarial model for assessing the risk the federal sentencing system poses to defendants
In the criminal justice system, algorithmic risk assessment instruments ...
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05/12/2022
Characterizing patterns in police stops by race in Minneapolis from 2016-2021
The murder of George Floyd centered Minneapolis, Minnesota, in conversat...
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05/11/2022
De-biasing "bias" measurement
When a model's performance differs across socially or culturally relevan...
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02/03/2022
Measuring Disparate Outcomes of Content Recommendation Algorithms with Distributional Inequality Metrics
The harmful impacts of algorithmic decision systems have recently come i...
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06/10/2021
It's COMPASlicated: The Messy Relationship between RAI Datasets and Algorithmic Fairness Benchmarks
Risk assessment instrument (RAI) datasets, particularly ProPublica's COM...
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02/01/2021
Closer than they appear: A Bayesian perspective on individual-level heterogeneity in risk assessment
Risk assessment instruments are used across the criminal justice system ...
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04/06/2020
Estimating the number of SARS-CoV-2 infections and the impact of social distancing in the United States
Understanding the number of individuals who have been infected with the ...
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04/06/2020
Estimating SARS-CoV-2-positive Americans using deaths-only data
We fit a Bayesian model to data on the number of deaths attributable to ...
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01/23/2020
The impact of overbooking on a pre-trial risk assessment tool
Pre-trial risk assessment tools are used to make recommendations to judg...
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10/18/2018
Removing the influence of a group variable in high-dimensional predictive modelling
Predictive modelling relies on the assumption that observations used for...
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10/25/2016
