3 papers
stat.AP2018
Mitigating Included- and Omitted-Variable Bias in Estimates of Disparate Impact
Jongbin Jung, Sam Corbett-Davies, Johann D. Gaebler +2
Managers, employers, policymakers, and others often seek to understand whether decisions are biased against certain groups. One popular analytic strategy is to estimate disparities…
stat.ME2018
Algorithmic Decision Making in the Presence of Unmeasured Confounding
Jongbin Jung, Ravi Shroff, Avi Feller +1
On a variety of complex decision-making tasks, from doctors prescribing treatment to judges setting bail, machine learning algorithms have been shown to outperform expert human jud…
stat.AP2017
Simple rules for complex decisions
Jongbin Jung, Connor Concannon, Ravi Shroff +2
From doctors diagnosing patients to judges setting bail, experts often base their decisions on experience and intuition rather than on statistical models. While understandable, rel…